Background
Feldbrugge, Ferdinand Joseph Maria was born on May 10, 1933 in The Hague. Son of Jan Joseph Maria and M. Pauline Caroline (de Gruyter) Feldbrugge.
Feldbrugge, Ferdinand Joseph Maria was born on May 10, 1933 in The Hague. Son of Jan Joseph Maria and M. Pauline Caroline (de Gruyter) Feldbrugge.
M.Law, University Utrecht, 1955. Doctor Law, University Utrecht, 1959.
Staff Faculty of Law, U. Utrecht, 1957-1959; staff Faculty of Law, U. Leiden, 1959-1964; visiting scholar, Russian Institute Columbia University, New York City, 1964; research associate, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965; staff, Faculty of Law, U. Leiden, 1965-1967; professor Dutch law, Faculty of Law, U. Leiden, 1967-1970; dean, Faculty of Law, U. Leiden, 1970-1972; professor Soviet law, Faculty of Law, U. Leiden, 1973-1987, 89-; sovietologist-in-residence, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Hq, Brussels, 1987-1989. Associate judge Appellate Court Haarlem, Netherlands, 1966-1984.
Member International Council for Soviet and East European Studies.
Married Mary Bridget Lawlor, September 12, 1959. Children: Deirdre, Eva, Mercy.