6?0 G O M 
States in Wafliington county, Georgia, fitiiated near the 
head of Ogeechee river, about twenty-fix miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Oconee town, thii ty-feven of Augnfia, and 
fifty north-weft.of Louifville. 
GOLSCH, a river of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, winch rifes a little to the foiith of A.uerbach, 
in the Vogdand, and runs into the Elfter, near Greitz. 
GOLTCHIN'SKOI^ a fettlement of Rulfia, in the 
government of Tobollk': 380 miles nortli of Turuchanfk. 
L.it. 72. 5 N, Ion. 103. E. Ferro. 
GOLTIAVrNA, a town of Ruftla^ in the govern¬ 
ment of Tobollk : 188 miles eaft of Enifeilk. Lat. 58. 
30 . N Ion. 116 E. Ferro. 
GOLT'VA, a town.of Ruflia, in the government of 
Kiev: 1 13 miles fouth-eaft of Kiev. Lat. 49. 15. N. 
Ion. 51. E. Ferro. 
GOLT'ZE, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and Ucker Mark of Brandenburg : five 
miles fouth-weft of New Augermunde. 
GOI.T'ZIUS, or Golts (Henry), born at Mul- 
bracht in the duchy of Juliers in 1558, was an eminent 
engraver, and publilhed many printsfrom defigns brought 
from Italy, which are much efteemed. He died in 1617. 
GO'LUB, a town of Pruftia, in theterritory of Culm: 
twenty-four miles fouth-eaft of Culm. 
GOLUBEN'SKA, a town of Rulfia, in the country 
of tlie Cofacs, on the Don : 200 miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Azoph, and forty weft-north-weft of Tzaritzin. 
GOL'ZI US (llubert), an eminent antiquary, born at 
Venloo in 1526, was the I'on of Roger Goltz, a painter 
at Wurizburg. Hubert was inftrubted in his father’s 
art, and at the fame time,applied to the ftudy of polite 
literature, hillory, and antiquities. Fie particularly cul- 
■tivated the knowledge of medals and infcriptions, and 
fpared neither labour nor ex pence in this puriuit. He 
refided for fome years at Antwerp, whence, in 1558, he 
removed to Bruges. Fie took feveral journeys tiiroiigh 
the Low-countries, Germany, France, and Italy, every 
.where finding accefs to the cabinets of the curious, and 
enriching his collection witli the monuments of antiqui¬ 
ty. His reputation obtained for him the citizenftiip of 
Rome, and he was honoured by the patronage of the 
emperor Ferdinand, and other perfons of rank. He died 
at Bruges in 1583. Golzius was a printer, painter, and 
engraver in wood, as well as a writer. He publilhed 
1. Fajii Romani ex Anliqtiis Numifinatibus S 3 Marmoribus, tolio. 
2. leones Imp. Romanoncm & Series Anjiriacorum, toUo ; thefe 
are effigies of emperors from medals, &c. from Julius 
Caefar to Charles V. 3. JuRi Ciefaris & Augufli Fit. ex 
nnmijmatihus. 4. Sicilia S 3 MagnaGracia ex munifmat. folio ; 
a work of great erudition and much efteemed. 3. Fajli 
Confularis. 6 . Thefaurus Antiquitatum. All his works 
were printed togetlier at Antwerp, in three volumes fo¬ 
lio, 1645 and 1708. 
GO'MAR (Francis), the celebrated opponent of Ar- 
minius, from whom the Calviniftic party in Holland re¬ 
ceived the name of Gomarijls, was born at Bruges, in 
1563. His parents, having embraced the proteftant reli¬ 
gion, retired into the palatinate in 1578, for the fake of 
living in peace and fecurity. Young Gomar was now 
fent to the univerfity of Strafburg, and placed under the 
inftruefions of the famous John Sturm ; after which he 
went to purfue his ftudies at Newftadt. In 1582 he 
came to England, and attended the divinity ledtures in 
the univerfities of Oxford and Cambridge. He was ad¬ 
mitted to I he degree of bachelor in 1384. The two fol¬ 
lowing years he fpent at Heidelberg, where he applied 
liimfelf with great alliduity to perfedt his knowdedge in 
the Greek and Hebrew languages. In 1387 he was in¬ 
vited to become pallor of the Dutch congregation at 
Frankfort, and continued to dil'charge his minifterial 
fundtions in that connection until 1393, when his flock 
was entirely difperfed by perfecution. In the following 
year he was invited to fill the chair of theological pro- 
I'effor ill Leyden; and after he had been admitted to the 
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degree of dodlor of divinity at Heidelberg, entered on 
the duties of that employment. From this time, no¬ 
thing is related concerning him worthy of notice till the 
ye.ir 1603, when Jaines Arminius was appointed his col¬ 
league in the profelTorlhip of divinitVi This celebrated 
man had no fooner entered on his office, than he openly 
declared his opinions in bppofition to thofe of Calvin, 
and made many converts in the univerfity. He foon, 
however, met with a zealous and violent adverfary in 
Gomar, who difputed with him in the fchools of Ley¬ 
den ; publifited treatifes to excite the orthodox to make 
a firm ftand againft his docL-ines, which he reprefented 
to be profane and impious ; and endeavoured to provoke 
againft him the indignation of the Hates of Holland, be¬ 
fore whom the two combatants difputed twice, in tiie 
year 1608. When, upon the death of Anninius, V’or- 
ftius, who was of the fame fentinients, was propofed to 
become his fuccelTor, Gomar and his party ufed all their 
diligence to prevent his appoiiitrnent, but without fuc- 
cefs. This defeat determined Gomar no longer to con¬ 
tinue in a fituation where his adverfaries were daily in- 
creafiug in numbers and reput.ition ; and in 1611 he re- 
figned his poll, and retired to Middleburg. In that city 
he ofticiate.d as minifter, and delivered public leCtures 
till 1614, when he accepted of an invitation to become 
profeftbr of divinity in the academy at Saumur. After 
exercifing that etnployment for four years, he removed 
to the univerfity of Groningen, where he was fii ft ap¬ 
pointed to the profeflbrfiiip of divinity, and afterwards 
to that of the Hebrew language. He wasprefentin the 
lynod of Dort, and took an active part in procuring the 
periecuting decrees by which tlie Arminians w'ere con¬ 
demned, and proferibed as corrupters of the true faith, 
and enemies to their country. Fie was alfo concerned in 
revifing the tranflation of the Old Teftament, printed at 
Leyden, with notes, in 1^37. He died at Groningen in 
1641, defervedly commended for his great learning, par¬ 
ticularly in the. oriental languages, but under the re¬ 
proach of having difgraced his charadter as a Chriftian 
minifter, by bigotry and intolerance. The dift'erent trea. 
tifes tvhich he wrote on controverfial and other fubjects 
were colledled together, and printed at Amfterdam, in 
1643. 
GOMAUN', mountains of Afia, which feparate Hin- 
dooftan from Grand Thibet, the fame with Himmalcli. 
Lat. 30. 30. to 31. 20. N. Ion. 76. i-o 77. E. Greenwich. 
GOM'BAULD (John Ogier de), a French poet, na¬ 
tive of St. Juft de Luft'ac, in Saintonge. IFe was a 
younger Ibn of a gentleman of the proteftant religion, to 
which he adhered. Pofteiling more quality than wealth, 
after finifhing his education at Eourdeaux, he came to 
Paris about the time of the death of Henry IV. and fre¬ 
quented the court of queen Maryde Medicis. He fo 
well ingratiated himfelf with her, that he not only ob¬ 
tained a penfion', but was alfo appointed gentleman in 
ordinary ot the khig’l; ch unber;' and had fome patrons 
ot rank; yet he paifed his life in a (tate little above indi. 
gence. He took a feat among the wits and poets of the 
time, was a conftant vilitor at'the hotel de Riinbouilleit, 
and was one of tlie firft me mbers of the French acade¬ 
my. By means of regularity and fobriety he protract¬ 
ed his life to an advanced period, dying in 1666, The 
works of this writer were tragedies, tragi-comedies, paf- 
torals, rbmances, fonnets, epigrams, &c. which obtain¬ 
ed reputation in their time, but are at prefent little el- 
teemed. He alfo engaged in theological controverfy, 
and wrote Treatifes and Letters concerning Religion, in 
favour of the principles of the Proteftants. 
GOM'BERVILLE (.Marin le Roi, lieur de), a man 
of letters, born in 1399 at Chevreufe in the cliocefe of 
Paris. He made himlelf known at the age ot fourteen 
by a colleblion of quatrains in honour of old age. Some 
romances and other works gave him a reputation which 
caufed him to he one of the number ot literary men af. 
fembled by cardinal Riclielieu in 1633, for the purpofe 
