BRANDT, Gerard, a learned divine of the Reformed religion, was born at Amsterdam in 1626, and was successively minister in several places of the Netherlands. His works were numerous and popular, especially a History of the Reformation in the Low Countries, Amsterdam, 1671-74, in 4 vols. 4to, which was translated into English, and published at London in 1719, 8vo; The Life of Admiral de Ruyter; An Account of the Trial of Barneveld, Hoogerbeets, and Grotius, in 1618, Rotterdam 1619, 4to; and Oratio Funebriis Cornelii Hooftii, Satrapæ Mudani, Amsterdam 1648; all, except the last, in the Flemish language. Brandt died at Rotterdam in 1685.