GELDENHAUR, GERARD, in Latin Geldenha-
rius, an historian and Protestant divine in the 16th
century. He was a native of Nimeguen, and studied
classical learning at Deventer. He went through his
course of philosophy at Louvain, where he contract-
ed a very strict friendship with several learned men,
and particularly with Erasmus. He became reader
and historian to Charles of Austria, and afterwards to
Maximilian of Burgundy. At length he embraced
the Protestant religion; taught history at Marburg,
and afterwards divinity till his death, in 1542. He
wrote, 1. History of Holland. 2. History of the Low
Countries. 3. History of the bishops of Utrecht; and
other works.