Person

Zas, Lucas

1591–1636

Rector binnen Woerden

Lucas Zas, 1591-1636. Son of a Gouda schoolmaster, had worked as a teacher of Latin and French at Utrecht and nearby Montfoort, before his appointment as a headmaster and precentor at Woerden. Apart from publishing the two pamphlets, he also wrote a play ..., he edited ... Juan Louis Vives ... Zas was Woerden's independent intellectual and the ideal partner for an independent believer. - Headmaster of a small local grammar school. Eye-witness of the spiritual experience of Evert Willemsz.