Marten Schagen (24 October 1700, in Alkmaar – 20 October 1770, in Utrecht) was a Dutch Mennonite bookseller, translator, journal editor and historian.[1]
He was born in Alkmaar, moving to Amsterdam in 1718 where he set up a bookshop.[1] He was minister to the "Arche Noe" congregation there from 1727 to 1738.[2] In 1741 he moved to Utrecht as minister to the Mennonite congregation there.[1]
Schagen's 1745 translation of the 1743 German history of the Mennonites by Simeon Friedrich Rues was a substantially improved edition and became a major work in the field.[1]
His 1745 bibliography of Mennonite literature was also the only such early work that was free-standing.[4] He collected Anabaptist literature, and wrote a work on the Waldensians.[5]
↑ Wiep van Bunge et al. (editors), The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2003), Thoemmes Press (two volumes), article Schagen, Marten, p. 885–90.
