Koerbagh

(Adriaan), Dutch martyr, b. Amsterdam, 1632 or 1633. He became a doctor of law and medicine. In 1668 he published A Flower Garden of all Loveline , a dictionary of definitions in which he gave bold explanations. The work was rigidly suppre ed, and the writer fled to Culemborg . There he translated a book De Trinitate , and began a work entitled A Light Shining in Dark Places , to illuminate the chief things of theology and religion by Vrederijk Waarmond, inquisitor of truth. Betrayed for a sum of money, Koerbagh was tried for blasphemy, heavily fined and sentenced to be imprisoned for ten years, to be followed by ten years banishment. He died in prison, Oct. 1669.