or David-Georgians, an heretical sect, the followers of David Joris, who was born at Delft in 1501. This man was the son of a market-crier, and early made himself conspicuous by his fanatical opposition to the Roman Catholics. He joined the Anabaptists in 1534, and in his preaching tours became an object of general persecution. In 1542 he published his Book of Wonders, from which the most extravagant opinions, in regard to his own Messiahship, and his contempt of morality, have been extracted by his enemies. For twelve years before his death he lived at Basle in communion with the Reformed church, under the feigned name of John von Brügge. His followers, in spite of laws passed against them, maintained themselves in Holland till the middle of the seventeenth century.