TEELLINCK, GUILLAUME. — Born in 1579, died in 1629, Calvinist minister at Middelbourg (Zelanda).
He encountered Pietism in England and introduced it into Dutch Calvinism by propagating, through his personal conduct and a large number of popular works, the idea of a highly pronounced rigorism in daily life, as an indispensable condition for preparing the soul for union with God. This mentality is also found in his brother Eeuwoud (died in 1629) and in his sons Maximilus (died in 1653) and Jean (died in 1674). The T. family are the most characteristic representatives of indigenous Calvinist Pietism, soon flanked in Holland by two other tendencies, one of French origin and the other of Scottish origin.
BIBL.: Nieuw. Nederl. Biogr. Woordenb., V. Leiden 1921, pp. 884–93; J. Reitsma-J. Lindenboom, Gesch. Hervorming... der Nederlanden, Utrecht 1933, pp. 381–84; H. Visser, De gesch. van de sabbattriid, there 1939. Ponziano Polman