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Guillaume de Blyenbergh (Blijenbergh) was a Danish grain broker and amateur Calvinist theologian who engaged in philosophical correspondence with Spinoza regarding the problem of evil. Their correspondence consisted of 4 letters each, written between December 1664 to June 1665. Blyenbergh visited Spinoza at his home in June, after which their correspondence ended.

Further reading

  • Deleuze, Gilles, Spinoza - Philosophie pratique (1970, 2nd ed. 1981). Trans. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (1988).
  • Spinoza, Benedictus de, "The Letters", Steven Barbone (Introduction), Lee Rice (Introduction), Jacob Adler (Introduction), Samuel Shirley (Translator), Hackett Publishing Company (1995)




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