WALA: Abbot of Corbie. See Adalhard and Wala.

WALAEUS, wd-le'us, ANTONIUS (ANTOINE DE WAELE): Dutch Reformed; b. at Ghent Oct. 3, 1573; d. at Leyden July 9, 1639. He was educated at the University of Leyden (1596-99); preached and lectured for a time at Geneva, and toward the close of 1601 returned to Leyden, where he was made one of the city preachers; he accepted a call to Koudekerke near Middelburg in 1602; was made chaplain to Prince Maurice, 1604; went as preacher to Middelburg, 1605, where in 1609 he was also appointed professor of dogmatics; he attended the Synod of Dort (1618-19) as representative of the States General of Zeeland, where he became a person of importance, being selected as one of the framers of the Canons of Dort; in 1619 he was appointed professor of theology at Leyden; in 1625 he collaborated in issuing the Synopsis purioris theologise, and was active in the new translation of the Bible made under the auspices of the States General.

Walaeus was a Contra-Remonstrant and an opponent of Arminianism, but was more irenic in temperament than many of his contemporaries. His dogmatic position is shown by his Synopsis, Enchiridion Religionis Reformatce, and his unfinished Loci

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communes theologici. In the controversy on the proper observance of the Sabbath he wrote Dissertatio de Sabbatho, sive de vero sense atque use quarti prcecepti (Leyden, 1628). Thirteen years earlier, he had opposed the views of Uytenbogaert (q.v.) on church government in his Het ampt der kerckendienarert, midtsgaders de authoriteyt ends opsicht, die een hooghe christelicke overheydt dyer over toecompt (Middelburg, 1615). Walaeus rendered valuable, service also to Christian ethics by his Compendium ethicce Aristotelicce ad normam veritatis Christiance revocatum (Leyden, 1627). He did much for missions in the East Indies by opening, as early as 1622, a seminary in his house to train preachers. His name is still perpetuated by the "Walxus Seminary" in Leyden. His collected works were published after his death (2 vols., Leyden, 1647).

(S. D. Van Veen.)

Bibliography: G. Bates, Yitm selectorum aliquot virorum, London, 1681; C. Sepp, Het podgeleerd Orederwijs in Nederland gedurende de 16. en 17. Eeuw, Leyden,s1873-74; J. A. Grothe, in Berichte van de Utrechtsche Zendingsvereeuigung, vol. xaui., Utrecht, 1882; J. D. de Lied van Wijagaarden, A'l7.t07Liu3 Walceus, Leyden, 1891.