Education
Leiden University.
Leiden University.
From 1936 to 1944 he was professor in New Testament exegesis at the University of Amsterdam. He belonged to the Dutch school of Radical Criticism. After attending school in Sneek, Van den Bergh van Eysinga started studying theology at Leiden University in 1893.
He obtained a doctorate in 1901 on a thesis about Indian influences on early Christian stories, for which West.C. van Manen had been the thesis advisor.
After his retirement in 1944, he continued teaching at the University of Utrecht until the year of his death in 1957.