Witsius, HERMANN, Dutch theologian, was born at Enkhuysen, February 12, 1636, studied at Groningen, Leyden, and Utrecht, and served as pastor till 1675, when he was called to a chair at Franeker, in 1680 at Utrecht. In 1698 he was called to Leyden, and here he died, October 22, 1708. His great work is De æconomia Fæderum Dei cum hominibus (1685; Eng. trans. 3 vols. 1763)—an unsuccessful attempt to establish a middle way between the orthodox and the federalists.
Other writings translated are Conciliatory Animadversions on the Controversies agitated in Britain under the Names of Antinomians and Neonomians (Glasgow, 1807), Dissertations on the Creed (Edin. 1823), and on the Lord's Prayer (1839).