Gerard van der Leeuw

Gerardus van der Leeuw
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Born	March 18, 1890 The Hague, Netherlands
Died	November 18, 1950 Utrecht, Netherlands
Notable work	Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenology

Institutions	University of Groningen
Main interests	Phenomenology of religion Comparative religion Philosophy of religion

Gerardus van der Leeuw (March 18, 1890 – November 18, 1950) was a Dutch historian and philosopher of religion.

He is best known for his work Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenology, an application of philosophical phenomenology to religion. It was first published in 1933 under the German title Phänomenologie der Religion and translated into English in 1938.

From 1945–1946 van der Leeuw was minister of Education of the Netherlands for the Labour Party. Before the war he had been a member of the conservative Christian Historical Union.

External links

Works by or about Gerard van der Leeuw at Internet Archive
Gerardus van der Leeuw at the University of Alabama Department of Religious Studies.

Ministers of Education of the Netherlands

Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

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