- S. U. Zuidema
Syste Ulbe Zuidema (1906-1975) was one of the second generation of reformational philosophers arising from the
Free University of Amsterdam , after the first generation ofHerman Dooyeweerd andD. H. Th. Vollenhoven . Other second generationers were:Hendrik Van Riessen ,K. J. Popma andJ. P. A. Mekkes .Prior to teaching philosophy at the Free University, Zuidema held a chair of calvinistic philosophy at the University of Utrecht. He had also been a minister in the Reformed Churches and a missionary in Indonesia. His doctoral dissertation was on William of Ockham.
Robert Knudsen andHendrik Hart both completed their doctoraldissertation s inphilosophy under Zuidema.Timeline
* 1925-1930 Studied at the Free University of Amsterdam
*1931-1934 Pastor in Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) in Anna Paulowna Polder
* 1935-1945Missionary for the Mission in Central Java,Indonesia (Dutch East indies)
* 1936 Received doctorate from the Free University:* Dissertation: "The nominalisticphilosophy ofWilliam of Ockham "
*1936-1946 Missionry minister at Soerakarta (Solo). During WWII he was held at a Japanese prisoner of war camp on Java.
* 1946 returned to Holland
* 1948 Chair of Christian Philosophy atUniversity of Utrecht and at the Free University
* 1954 onwards taught only at the Free University.Publications
*"Kierkegaard" in "Modern Thinkers", an International Library of Philosophy and theology (Presbyterian & Reformed: Philadelphia) [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kuyper.org/news/lanfear/lanfear2.html]
*"Sartre" in "Modern Thinkers", an International Library of Philosophy and theology (Presbyterian & Reformed: Philadelphia) [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kuyper.org/news/lanfear/lanfear2.html]
*"Communication and Confrontation: A Philosophical Appraisal and Critique of Modern Society and Contemporary Thought". Assen/Kampen Royal VanGorcum Ltd, 1972
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