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Sibrandus Lubbertus (1556-1625). Dated 1616. Panel, 67 × 54 cm.

Franeker, Museum 't Coopmanshûs, inv.nr. Sch. 14. From the Senate Chamber of Franeker University.

Professor of theology at Franeker from 1585 until his death forty years later, Lubbertus was a hard worker, who was said to begin writing at three o'clock in the morning. He had no academic experience when he came to Franeker from a post as itinerant minister for the States of Friesland. At the university he appointed himself watchdog of good morals and right thinking, driving his colleagues Maccovius and Drusius to despair. Lubbertus was even stricter than the leader of his own Counter-Remonstrant party, Franciscus Gomarus, whom he accused of unorthodox tendencies. At the Synod of Dordt, where the States General allowed the Counter-Remonstrants to condemn the Remonstrants, Lubbertus was much in evidence.

NNBW, vol.2, cols. 843-849. Ekkart 1977, nr. 1.