Jan Hendrik Maronier


Jan Hendrik Maronier was a Dutch pastor and writer.

Personal life

Maronier was born in Rotterdam in 1827 as the son of the accountant Jan Hendrikszoon Maronier and Susanna Maria van Lil. He married Aletta Nijhoff, daughter of the bookseller, publisher and historian Isaac Anne Nijhoff and of Martina Cornelia Houtkamp, on 20 July 1853 in Arnhem. He died in November 1920 at the age of 93 in Renkum. His son, Jan Hendrik was curator of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

Education and career

He studied theology and successively became a Remonstrant minister in Zevenhuizen and Bleiswijk, in Leiden, in Utrecht and from 1881 to 1893 in his birthplace Rotterdam. He has published many religious works. His Inrichting der christelijke gemeenten was awarded in 1874 by the Teylers Eerste Genootschap. In 1892 he wrote an introduction to De Zwijndrechtse nieuwlichters volgens de gedenkschriften van Maria Leer. , written by the 91-year-old writer Louise Sophie Blussé, under the pseudonym D.N. Anagrapheus. She recorded the memoirs of one of the leaders of this sect, Maria Leer. His Geschiedenis van het protestantisme was crowned in 1897 by the "Haagsche Genootschap tot verdediging van den Christelijke godsdienst" . In 1905 he wrote an extensive biography of the Arminian theologian Jacobus Arminius.

Works