Hendrik Wyermars was a Dutch radical Enlightenment thinker from Amsterdam who in 1710 published a philosophical book defending the eternity of the world and rejecting the literal version of the Creation story from the book of Genesis.
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Hendrik Wyermars was considered an adherent of Spinozism, proclaiming atheist and materialist views.
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Hendrik Wyermars's father was Willem Wyermars, who from 1684 until his death in 1691 worked as a peat transporter.
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In 1710 Hendrik Wyermars laid down his views in a book called Den ingebeelde chaos, in which he developed a naturalistic philosophy.
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Hendrik Wyermars sent him a letter explaining his objections to this, but Santvoort failed to reply.
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Hendrik Wyermars survived the jail sentence, and after being released in 1725 settled in Amsterdam despite his banishment.
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Hendrik Wyermars's living conditions were poor and he depended wholly on the help of some friends.
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Hendrik Wyermars failed to do so and after being arrested for a third time, in 1749, he was again sentenced to do time in the Rasphuis as well as being banned from Holland for life.
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The first modern scholarly article on Hendrik Wyermars was written in 1974 by the Flemish researcher Hubert Vandenbossche.
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In 2015 Hendrik Wyermars's book was republished in an annotated and modernized Dutch version with an introduction summarizing the current state of scholarship on Hendrik Wyermars.
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