Peter van Hove
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Flemish theologian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter van Hove was a Flemish Friar Minor, lector in theology and exegete. Biography Peter was born at Retie, in the Campine region of Flanders . He was a pupil of Willem Smits, founder and first prefect of the "Musæum Philologico-Sacrum", a Franciscan Biblical institute at Antwerp, which had for its scope the training of Franciscan students in the languages appertaining to Biblical study, in Biblical history, geography, chronology and other subsidiary branches, such as are requisite for a critical and literal interpretation of the Sacred Text.
