The way people tend to denigrate Arminius making him the historical equivalent of Satan Incarnate on these threads is amazing. We have him blamed for everything from Open Theism to Mormonism. I'm sure if he lived before Mohammed he'd be blamed for Islam as well.
But it does appear that he was a faithful disciple of Calvin's teachings and it would appear that Arminius was closer to Calvin's teachings than many of the modern Calvinists of our times.
As was shown on the other thread, Calvin had to deal with the hyper-Calvinists of his day as well. Perhaps that strain that Calvin fought against was the same strain that Arminius fought against.
So was Arminius a Calvinist? He says he was, and I think we ought to take him at his word. :-)
Ich bein eine Calvinist!