Background
Verhoeven was born in Udenhout, the fourth child of seven from a farmer"s family in the south of the Netherlands.
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Cornelis Verhoeven
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He attended a seminary but was asked to leave. He studied classics, philosophy and theology at the University of Nijmegen and promoted on the thesis “Symbolism of the foot” on October 19th 1956.
Career
Verhoeven taught Latin and Greek at the Jeroen Bosch College for 27 years. Then he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He published more than 80 books
He has written original work on wonder, reality, violence, religion, contemplation and language, and interpretations and translations of classical and modern philosophers such as Heraclitus, Plato, Geulincx, Leibniz, Nietzsche and Heidegger.
His work has been translated in English, German and Italian, and has been awarded the Anne Frank prize and the Professional Corporation Hooft prize. One of his best known books was The Philosophy of Wonder.
Verhoeven had two children, Neeltje (1973) and Daan (1974). He died at "s-Hertogenbosch, on June 11th 2001.
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Netherlands