WITSIUS (Herman), a learned and eminent divine of North Holland, born at Eneckhuizen in 1616. He was professor of divinity successively at Franeker, Utrecht, and Leyden; and applied himself successfully to oriental learning, of which his capital work Ægyptica affords sufficient proof. His Economy of the Covenants between God and Men, is warmly recommended by Mr Hervey in his Theron and Aspasio. He died in 1708.