TEELING, GUILLAUME. - B. 1579, d. 1629, Calvinist minister at Middelburg (Zealand).
He became acquainted with Pietism in England and introduced it into Dutch Calvinism, propagating, through his personal conduct and a large number of popular works, the idea of a very strict morality in daily life as an indispensable condition for preparing the soul for union with God. This mentality is also found in his brother Eeuwoud (d. 1629) and in his sons Maximilius (d. 1653) and Jean (d. 1674). The T. are the most characteristic representatives of indigenous Calvinist Pietism, soon joined in Holland by two other tendencies, one of French origin and the other of Scottish origin.
BIBL.: Nieuw. Nederl. Biogr. Woordenb., V. Lieda 1921, pp. 884-93; J. Reitsma-J. Lindenboom, Gesch. Herwoning... der Nederlanden, Utrecht 1933, pp. 381-84; H. Visser, De gesch. van de sabbatstrijd, in 1939, Ponziano Polman.