, the youngest son of Gerard, and brother to the two preceding, was
, the youngest son of Gerard, and
brother to the two preceding, was born at Nieukoop,
July 6, 1660, 'and having gone through his divinity course,
was chosen minister at Warmont in 1682, whence he was,
the following year, invited to Hoorn. He was afterwards
called to the Arminian church at the Hague, and some
time after that, to Amsterdam, where he died Jan. 13,
1708. He wrote in German a life of St. Paul, 1695, 4to;
a funeral oration on Mary queen of England, and a treatise
against Leidekker. In 1702 he published a collection of
letters, “Clarorum virorum Epistolae centum ineditae de
vario eruditionis genere, ex museo Joan. Brandt, G. F.
Gerardi filii,
” comprising some from Nich. Heinsius,
Grotius, Guy Patin, Huet, Rabelais, &c. He wrote also
some poems.