Bogerman, Jan

BOGERMAN, bō´ger-man, JAN: Dutch theologian; b. at Oplewert, East Friesland, 1576; d. at Franeker Sept. 11, 1637. He was professor of divinity at Franeker after 1633. He took an active part in the Arminian controversy and presided at the Synod of Dort. He was one of the workers on the Old Testament of the Staatenbibel (see Bible Versions, B, III). He wrote a polemic against Grotius, Annototiones contra H. Grotium, and translated Beza's De la punition des hérétiques, under the title Van het ketter straffen (Franeker, 1601).