GERARD, in Latin Geldenhaurius, 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 contracted 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 Low Countries. 3. History of the bishops of Utrecht; and other works.