GOMARUS, FRANZ (1563-1641), Dutch theologian, was born at Bruges on Jan. 3o, 1563. He studied at Strasbourg, Neu stadt, Oxford and Cambridge. He was pastor of a Reformed Dutch church in Frankfort from 1587 till 1593, when the con gregation was dispersed by persecution. From 1594 to 1611 he was professor of theology at Leiden. There he became the leader of the opponents of Arminius, who from that circumstance came to be known as Gomarists. He disputed with Arminius before the assembly of the estates of Holland in 1608, and was one of five Gomarists who met five Arminians or Remonstrants in the same assembly of 1609. On the death of Arminius, Konrad Vorstius (1559-1622), who sympathized with his views, was appointed to succeed him ; and Gomarus left Leiden for Middle burg, where he became preacher at the Reformed church, and taught theology and Hebrew in the newly founded Illustre Schule. Later he was professor at Saumur, then at Groningen, where he died on Jan. 11, 1641. He took a leading part in the synod of Dort (1618) . His works were collected and published in one volume folio, in Amsterdam in 1645. He was succeeded at Gronin gen in 1643 by his pupil Samuel Maresius