Valerius Andreas

Wouter Dries or Walter Driessens (1588–1655), Latinized Valerius Andreas, was an academic jurist, Hebraist, and historian from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands.

Valerius was born in Dessel on 27 November 1588, the eldest son of Henricus Dries and Adriana Pauwels.

In 1611 he was appointed professor of Hebrew at the Collegium Trilingue at the Leuven University, delivering his inaugural lecture in 1612 and teaching there until his death.

A funeral elegy by Bernardus Heimbach, professor at the Collegium Trilingue, was printed in 1656 under the title Justa Valeriana seu Laudatio funebris.

[1] A collection of his legal writings was published posthumously as Synopsis sive erothemata juris canonici (Cologne, 1660, 1672; Leuven 1680).