Hoop-Scheffer, Jacob Gysbert

de, Dutch philologist and historian; b. at The Hague, Sept. 28, 1819. Having lost his father at an early age, he was brought up in Amsterdam by his uncle de Hoop, whose name he took; studied in the Men no nite Theological Seminary at Amsterdam, and graduated at the University of Utrecht. During this period he employed his leisure time in the study of the mediaeval literature of the Netherlands, and was one of the founders (1842) of the society for the publication of Dutch texts of the thi 114 rteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. He was pastor succe ively at Hoorn (1843-46), Groningen (1846-49), Amsterdam (1849-60); has been profe or in the- Men no nite Seminary since 1860; and profe or of Old-Testament exegesis, and the Christian literature of the first two centuries, in the Municipal University of Amsterdam, since 1877. Besides a number of articles in the Navorscher, Studien en Bijdragen, etc., he has written in Dutch, "A Brief History of the Men no nites," Amsterdam, 1860; " A History of the Reformation in the Netherlands before 1531," 1873; "A History of the Brownists of Amsterdam," 1881; and contributed the article upon the Men no nites in the " Pictures of the History of the Christian Church in the Netherlands," 1869.