Honert (Tako Hajo), Van Den
a distinguished Dutch divine, was born March 6, 1666, at Norden, East Frisia. He studied at Marburg, Leydlen, and Dort, was preacher in 1689, and succeeded in 1714 his former teacher, Solomon van Til, as professor of theology at Leyden. He died February 23, 1740, leaving, Vorlooper over den Brief an de Romeinen (1698): — Verklaring van den Brief Pauli an de Romeinen (Leyden, eod.): — Beknoopte Scheets der Goddelyke Waarheeden (1703): — Verklarung over Luke 7:35 (1706): — Thoge Priesterschap van Christus niaar de Ordenung van Melchizedek (1712): — Verklaring van den 110 Psalm. (1714): — Theologia Naturalis et Revelata (1715): — Diss. de Theologio Propheticae, Necessitate (1721): — Dissertationes Historiae: 1. De Cireatione Mundi; 2. De Situ Edenis; 3. De Lingua Primaeva (1738). See Moser, Lexikon der Theologen; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:125, 199; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)