Education
Robert Knudsen and Hendrik Hart both completed their doctoral dissertations in philosophy under Zuidema.
Robert Knudsen and Hendrik Hart both completed their doctoral dissertations in philosophy under Zuidema.
Vollenhoven. Other second generationers were: Hendrik Van Riessen, K. J. Popma and J. P. A. Mekkes. Prior to teaching philosophy at the Free University, Zuidema held a chair of Calvinistic philosophy at the University of Utrecht. His doctoral dissertation was on William of Ockham.
1925-1930 Studied at the Free University of Amsterdam
1935-1945 Missionary for the Mission in Central Java, Indonesia (Dutch East indies)
1936 Received doctorate from the Free University
Dissertation: The nominalistic philosophy of William of Ockham
1936-1946 Missionry minister at Soerakarta (Solo).
During World World War II he was held at a Japanese prisoner of war camp on Java. 1946 returned to the Netherlands
1948 Chair of Christian Philosophy at University of Utrecht and at the Free University
1954 onwards taught only at the Free University.