Biography:Jan A. Aertsen

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Short description: Dutch philosopher and theologian
Jan A. Aertsen
Born7 September 1938[1]
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died7 January 2016 (2016-01-08) (aged 77)[1]
NationalityDutch
Academic background
EducationVrije Universiteit Amsterdam (PhD)
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  • Philosophy
  • Theology
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Jan Adrianus Aertsen (7 September 1938 – 7 January 2016) was a Dutch philosopher and theologian.[2] Born in Amsterdam, Aertsen received his PhD title at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and taught there from 1984 up to his death.[2] From 1993 to 2004, he served as a professor at the University of Cologne, and was the founding director of Thomas Instituut te Utrecht.[2][3] He wrote several works on Thomism, starting from his doctoral thesis, Nature and Creature. Thomas Aquinas’s Way of Thought (1988), published in Dutch four years later.[2]

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