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    The Pieterskerk is a late-Gothic Dutch Protestant church in Leiden dedicated to Saint Peter. It is known today as the church of the Pilgrim Fathers, where...
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    Leiden (/ˈlaɪdən/ LY-dən, Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlɛidə(n)] ; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South...
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    John Robinson (pastor) (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    Mercy, born in Leiden in circa 1614; was buried in 1623 in Leiden at the Pieterskerk. Fear, born in Leiden circa 1616, died testate in Leiden before 31 May...
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    Jacobus Arminius (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    October 1609 at his house at the Pieterskerkhof. He was buried in the Pieterskerk at Leiden, where a memorial stone on his behalf was placed in 1934.[citation...
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    Willebrord Snellius (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    Snellius died in Leiden in October 1626, at the age of 46 from an illness diagnosed as colic. His grave can be seen in the Pieterskerk, Leiden. Snellius Glacier...
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    Daniël Heinsius (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    Franeker to study law under Henricus Schotanus. In 1598, he settled at Leiden for the nearly sixty remaining years of his life. There he studied under...
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    Jan Steen (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    one of his drinking companions. He died in Leiden in 1679 and was interred in a family grave in the Pieterskerk. In 1945, Sturla Gudlaugsson, a specialist...
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    American Thanksgiving Day in the Pieterskerk, a Gothic church in Leiden, noting the hospitality the Pilgrims received in Leiden on their way to the New World...
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    Herman Boerhaave (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    hailed as the "Dutch Hippocrates". Boerhaave was born at Voorhout near Leiden. The son of a Protestant pastor, in his youth Boerhaave studied for a divinity...
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    Carolus Clusius (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    never practiced medicine, or styled himself as a physician. He died in Leiden in the Netherlands in 1609, at the age of 83. While little is known of his...
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    Gerrit Dou (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil...
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  • to worship as they chose. They founded the "English separatist church at Leiden", one of several English separatist groups in the Netherlands at the time...
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  • Joannes de Laet (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    died in December 1649 while in The Hague. He was buried in the Pieterskerk in Leiden on the 14th, next to Maria Boudewijns who had died in 1633. His...
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    Johannes Cocceius (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    elder Friedrich Spanheim as professor of theology at the University of Leiden. His chief services as an oriental scholar were in the department of Hebrew...
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    Rembert Dodoens (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    professor of medicine at the University of Leiden. He died in Leiden in 1585, and was buried at Pieterskerk, Leiden. In the early sixteenth century the general...
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    Joseph Justus Scaliger (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    Scaligeri, was recognized. Leiden lying between The Hague and Amsterdam, Scaliger was able to enjoy, besides the learned circle of Leiden, the advantages of the...
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    and the Pilgrim Hall Museum. Pieterskerk, Leiden Website of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum Pilgrim Archives Leiden Archived 2010-01-04 at the Wayback...
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    Despite militia guards, two of the three main churches in Leiden were attacked; in the Pieterskerk the choirbooks and altarpiece by Lucas van Leyden were...
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    Ludolph van Ceulen (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    to teach fencing and mathematics and in 1594 opened a fencing school in Leiden. In 1600 he was appointed the first professor of mathematics at the Engineering...
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  • Cornelis Schuyt (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    born in Leiden in 1557. He was the son of Floris Corneliszoon Schuyt (1529/30–1601), the organist of two churches in Leiden, the Pieterskerk and the Hooglandse...
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    Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    public affairs and, save for a mission to Paris in 1590, lived henceforth in Leiden or on his estate in Zeeland, where he worked at a translation of the Bible...
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    Frans van Mieris the Elder (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan (1660–1690) and Willem (1662–1747) and...
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    The Leiden choirbooks are six volumes of polyphonic renaissance music of the Franco-Flemish school copied for the Pieterskerk, Leiden and now preserved...
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    Johannes Heurnius (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    in Utrecht. In 1581 he became professor of medicine at the University of Leiden. Heurnius already had a reputation and good contacts with humanist scholars...
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    Arundel, West Sussex, England (Arundel Cathedral) 5 May. Leiden, Netherlands (Pieterskerk, Leiden) 30 and 31 May. These concerts were later released as a...
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    Tiberius Hemsterhuis (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    After a year or two at Groningen, he was attracted to the University of Leiden by the fame of Perizonius. While there, he was entrusted with the duty of...
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    François Hemsterhuis (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    born at Franeker in the Netherlands. He was educated at the University of Leiden, where he studied Plato. Failing to obtain a professorship, he entered the...
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    3 October Festival (category Culture in Leiden)
    their own alcohol with them from home. "3 October memorial service". Pieterskerk Leiden. Archived from the original on 1 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October...
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    Pieter de Ring (category Burials at Pieterskerk, Leiden)
    of the Guild of St. Luke in 1648, De Ring died in Leiden and was buried in the Pieterskerk, Leiden on 22 September 1660 and taken to church from a house...
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    the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal and a side chamber of the Pieterskerk, both in Leiden, the Museum Van Gijn in Dordrecht, the Maastricht town hall and...
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