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Arminius
WordNet
noun
(1) German hero; leader at the battle of Teutoburger Wald in AD 9 (circa 18 BC - AD 19)
(2) Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)