Herman Dooyeweerd timeline

Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977)

1894
Birth in Amsterdam

1917
Doctorate in jurisprudence from the VU on the Dutch constitutional law "De Ministerraad in het Nederlandse Staatsrecht" - supervised by D. P. D. Fabius

1918-21
Civil servant at the department of labour


1919
Father dies

1921-1926
Assistant director of the Abraham Kuyper Foundation
Wrote The Struggle for a Christian Politics (English translation  Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2009).

1920
Begins to publish major articles

1922
Debate with Scholten on 'State interference and individual freedom'
Discussions with brother-in-law D. H. Th. Vollenhoven

1923
'The Calvinistic principles of sphere sovereignty as political principle'

1924
Marries Jantiena Wilhelmina Fernhout on 19^th September

1926-1985
Appointed as professor of jurisprudence at the VU

1931
The Crisis of Humanist Political Theory as Seen from a Calvinist Cosmology and Epistemology (1931 [English translation  Grand Rapids: Paideia, 2010]).

1935
De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee (Amsterdam, 1935–36) [English translation The Philosophy of the Cosmonomic ldea (Philadelphia: P&R, 1953–58)]

1936
Opposed by VU's V Hepp
Synod dismisses accusations
Starts Philosophia Reformata with D H Th Vollenhoven
Founds the Association for Calvinistic [Reformational] Philosophy

1944
Disagrees with GK over the disposition of Klaas Schilder

1945-6
Writes a series of articles for newspaper  Nieuw Nederland which become Roots of Western Culture (English translation Wedge, 1979)


1946
Delivers a series on lectures on sociologt at the University of Delft - these become A Christian Theory of Social Institutions (Engl. Transl. by Magnus Verbrugge; Dooyeweerd Foundation, 1986)

1947
Introduction to transcendental criticism of philosophic thought. Evangelical Quarterly 19: 47-51

1948
Member of the Dutch Royal Academy
Mother dies
Transcendental Problems of Philosophic Thought: An Inquiry into the Transcendental Conditions of Philosophy. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids.


1951
'The contest about the concept of sovereignity in modern jurisprudence and political science' Free University Quarterly 1: 85-106.

1959
Visits North America
In the Twilight of Western Thought (Craig Press, 1960)

1975
Last article written for Philosophia Reformata
Interview with Pieter Boeles

1977
Death

1994
Dooyeweerd Centre founded