Caspar Sibelius

Caspar Sibelius (9 June 1590 – 1 January 1658), was a Dutch Protestant minister.

Sibelius was born in Elberfeld (near Wuppertal) and was trained in Herborn and Siegen before attending Leiden University to study theology under Gomarus and Arminius, and Hebrew under Coddaeus.

[1] On his return he became minister in Randerode (where he married the mayor's daughter Maria Klock, in 1610), Geilenkirchen and Gulik.

[1] In 1633–1634, he worked on the translation of the Staten-Bible in the house of Antonius Walaeus, professor of religion, on the Rapenburg in Leiden.

He was there along with the original living translators, and the paid observers: Appointed revisors who were unable to come that day: Sibelius died in Deventer.

Portrait of Caspar Sibelius by Jonas Suyderhoef after a painting by Frans Hals
Photo of original painting by Frans Hals. This painting was lost in a fire in Mount Kisco, New York in 1956