Ex quodam Poeta   Omnia aperta tibi, quicquid Medicina recondit,   intima naturae, vel rerum pondera noris,   Hippocrates fias, fiasque Machaone maior,   quas et Phyllirides, vel quas Epidaurius Herbas,   noueris, et quicquid praesagus nouit Apollo:   Sisque salus orbi, fas sit tibi ducere ab Orco   Extinctos homines, iterumque animare sepultos:   nomen, opes, famam, cumules hac arte perennem. haec pauca ex animo sperat precatur et optat doctissimo et florentissimo domino Francisco Paris Papai, Medico, Medecinae gratia peregrinanti, Daniel de Superville Medecinae doctorum filius, nepos et pronepos, nunc medecinae mentis intentus in verbi Diuini apud Rotterodamenses ministerio. Rotterodami 6º Decembr. 1719 De Superville MP    * Those verses of the poem listing the great predecessors are quite similar to verses 41-43 of the laudatory poem written by Laurentius Ludenius to Johannes Georgius Gezelius at the beginning of the work of the latter,  “J. A. Comenii Janua linguarum reserata aurea, in Graecum idioma, vocabulis et loquendi modis sanctis translata, Dorpati Livonorum 1648”:   Quas vel Phyllirides, vel quas Epidaurius herbas   Dignoscit: quicquid praesagus novit Apollo;   Quicquid et Hippocrates ponit, solersque Machaon.

p. 365. Rotterdam, December 6, 1719

Superville, Daniel de, Sen.
(1657-1728), French Reformed theologian in the Netherlands

Daniel de Superville. was born in Saumur in August of 1657, the son of the Niort physician Jacques de S. (?-1679) and of Marthe Pilet, grand-grandson of the physician Jean de S., and uncle of the physician and polyhistor Daniel de S. (1696-1773). The young Daniel began his studies in Saumur, reading Cartesian philosophy, literature and geography. Then he changed for theology, immatriculating in 1677 in Geneva, where he was registered as “Salmuriensis, theol. stud., huic albo nomen suum lubens apposuit”, that is, originating in Saumur, student of theology, who willingly wrote his name in this register”. He returned home in 1679, at the death of his father. The persecution of the Protestants urged him to go to England, but in 1683 he was invited to his native Loudun as a pastor. He worked here two years, but then he was denounced because of his sermons, and was summoned to Paris. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) his mother fled to the Netherland, and soon he also had to leave France. In 1685 he became assistant pastor, and from 1691 pastor in Rotterdam. In commission of the Vallon Synod he supported the widows of the exiled preachers. During the peace conference of Utrecht (1713) he often travelled there in order to negotiate with foreign embassadors about the possibility of the restoration of the French Protestant church and release of Protestants sent to galleys, and collected donations for supporting those released. He retired in 1724 because of his illness, and was followed in his office by his son Daniel de S. (1700-1762). He died on June 9, 1728. His sermons and his monthly letters issued from 1691 on were also published in a collective edition. His great catechism of 1706 was reprinted several times; his book on the Lord's Supper was translated into German by Johann Gottfried Lessing. His works: Les veritez et les devoirs de la réligion chrétienne, ou Catechisme pour l'instruction de la jeunesse. Rotterdam, 1706. Amsterdam, 1708. – Le vrai communiant ou Traité de la Sainte cène et des moiens d'y bien participer. Rotterdam, 1718. De ware disgenoot aan des Heren tafel of verhandeling van 't H. Avondmaal … Rotterdam, 1722. Geistreiche Betrachtungen von dem würdigen Gebrauche des heiligen Abendmahls … ins Teutsche übersetzt … von M. Johann Gottfried Lessing. Budissin [Bautzen], 1728. - Sermons sur divers textes de l'Écriture Sainte. Rotterdam, 1724, 1726. 4 vol.

The son of Superville, at that time student of theology, wrote in the album some days earlier in Leiden (p. 403).

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