Bartholomäus Keckermann

Bartholomäus Keckermann (c. 1572 – 25 August (or July) 1609) was a German writer, Calvinist theologian and philosopher.

As a writer on rhetoric, he is compared to Gerhard Johann Vossius, and considered influential in Northern Europe and England.

[1] Keckermann was born in Gdańsk (Danzig), in the Kingdom of Poland, to Calvinists Georg and Gertrude Keckermann[2] and attended the local Academic Gymnasium before moving on to the University of Wittenberg (May 1590) and the University of Leipzig (spring 1592).

However following the death of Prince Christian I in 1591, Keckermann participated in the migration of Calvinist academics to the University of Heidelberg in October 1592.

In 1601 he returned to his home town to teach as rector (1602–1608) at the Gymnasium of Danzig.