“ VOSSIUS [Voss] , GERHARD JOHANN (1577-1649) , German classical scholar and theologian, was the son of Johannes Voss, a Protestant of the Netherlands, who fled from persecution into the Palatinate and became pastor in the village near Heidelberg where Gerhard was born. Johannes was a Calvinist, however, and the strict Lutherans of the Palatinate caused him once more to become a wanderer; in 1578 he settled at Leiden as student of theology, and finally became pastor at Dort, where he died in 1585. ”

“ Here the son received his education, until in 1595 he entered the university of Leiden, where he became the lifelong friend of Hugo Grotius, and studied classics, Hebrew, church history and theology. In 1600 he was made rector of the high school at Dort, and devoted himself to philology and historical theology. From 1614 to 1619 he was director of the theological college at Leiden. Meantime he was gaining a great reputation as a scholar, not only in the Netherlands, but also in France and England. ”

“ Collected works published at Amsterdam (6 vols., 1695-1701) .
See P. Niceron, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des hommes illustres, vol. xiii. (Paris, 1730) ; Herzog's Realencyklopädie, art. “Vossius” ”