Nicolaas Grevinckhoven

Nicolaas Grevinckhoven (Grevinchovius, Grevinghoven or Grevinchoven in German sources) (died 1632) was a Dutch Protestant minister, a combative proponent of the Remonstrant party.

[2] Around 1610 he had a high-profile debate with William Ames;[3][4] and John Owen later quoted from his written work against Arminians in general.

[5] In Rotterdam he was on bad terms with the Contra-Remonstrant minister Cornelis Geselius, who quarrelled insistently with Grevinckhoven at the prompting of the extremist Adriaan Smout.

[7] In Antwerp after the Synod of Dort in 1619, he tried to rally the Remonstrants, who had suffered defeat at the Synod in theological terms, and had also lost a major political battle in Holland.

[9] While there he provided shelter for Hugo Grotius, recently escaped from imprisonment, in 1621.