Jan Jacob van Oosterzee
Dutch theologian
Died when: 65 years 119 days (783 months)Star Sign: Aries
Jan Jacob van Oosterzee (1 April 1817 – 29 July 1882), Dutch divine, was born at Rotterdam.He was educated at the University of Utrecht 1835–1839.
He was also known as Jan Jakob van Oosterzee, JJ van Oosterzee, or Johannes Jacobus van Oosterzee.After acting as pastor at Eemnes-Binnen 1841–43, Alkmaar 1843–44 and Rotterdam 1844–62, in 1863 he was made professor of biblical and practical theology at the University of Utrecht, with which he was variously connected until the end of his life.
Oosterzee earned a reputation as a preacher, was editor of the Theolog.Jahrbücher from 1845, wrote a number of noteworthy books on religious history, and published poems in Dutch (1882).
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