ALBADA, AGGAUS

ALBADA, AGGAUS. — Dutch statesman and theologian, d. in 1586 or 1588. He completed his legal studies at Bourges. Elected in 1561 as assessor of the Supreme Tribunal of the Empire, he resigned in 1570, accepting the position of councillor at Würzburg. In 1576 he withdrew to Cologne, where he was soon elected deputy of the States of Friesland to the congress that prepared the Pacification of Ghent (8 Nov. 1576). He devoted himself to theological studies and became a follower of Schwenkfeld, whose works he translated extensively into Latin. He wrote an examination of Beza’s annotations on the New Testament and left a rich collection of letters. The letters to the deputies of Friesland at Leeuwarden (1579–80) were published by Gabbema at Haarlem in 1669. In 1874 E. Friedländer published at Leeuwarden A.’s correspondence from 1579 to 1584.