Education
University of Amsterdam.
linguist philosopher specialist university professor
University of Amsterdam.
He was professor for Dutch speech communication at the University of Amsterdam. His contributions to the argumentation field include the co-foundation of the pragma-dialectic school in argumentation theory. He also wrote several books on the life and works of the Dutch writer and politician Theo Thijssen.
Grootendorst was a teacher at an elementary school in the 1960s.
He studied Dutch studies at the University of Amsterdam since 1980, and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1982 in Speech Communication. The dissertation was jointly written with Frans H. van Eemeren.
They jointly founded the International Society for the Study of Argumentation in 1986.