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Abraham Kuyper
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Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1837-1920)
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Abraham Kuyper was a Dutch journalist, politician, university teacher, and Christian minister. Born Abraham Kuijper in Maassluis in 1837, he was educated at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology, where he earned a doctorate. He served as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands and as Minister of State. A member of the Anti-Revolutionary Party, he was also employed by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and De Standaard.
Kuyper was a Reformed Christian and a member of the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. He authored 326 works, including Calvinism, Scolastica II, and Bekeert U, want het Koninkrijk Gods is nabij!. He died in The Hague in 1920 and was buried on November 12 of that year. He had eight children and was described by sources such as the Nordisk familjebok and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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- Born
- 1837
- Died
- 1920
- Works
- 326
Top works
- Calvinism
- Scolastica II
- Welke zijn de vooruitzichten voor de Studenten der Vrije Universiteit?
- Bekeert U, want het Koninkrijk Gods is nabij!
- Zijn uitgang te Jerusalem
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Key facts
- Monarch
- Wilhelmina
- Preceded by
- Nicolaas Pierson
- Succeeded by
- Theo de Meester
- Parliamentary group
- Anti-Revolutionary Party
- Prime minister
- Himself
- Leader
- Himself
- Born
- Abraham Kuyper , ( 1837-10-29 ) 29 October 1837, Maassluis , Netherlands
- Died
- 8 November 1920 (1920-11-08) (aged 83), The Hague , Netherlands
- Party
- Anti-Revolutionary Party , (from 1879)
- Spouse
- Johanna Hendrika Schaay ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1 July 1863</span>"}]]}'>1863 ; died 25 August 1899</span>"}]]}'>1899 )
- Children
- Herman Kuyper (1864–1945) Jan Kuyper (1866–1933) Henriëtte Kuyper (1870–1933) Abraham Kuyper Jr. (1872–1941) Johanna Kuyper (1875–1948) Catharina Kuyper (1876–1955) Guillaume Kuyper (1878–1941) Levinus Kuyper (1882–1892)
- Alma mater
- Leiden University
- Occupation
- Politician Minister Theologian Historian Journalist Author Academic administrator Professor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abraham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Maassluis
- Place of death
- The Hague
- Occupation
- jurist
- Educated at
- Delft University of Technology
- Employer
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Political party
- Anti-Revolutionary Party
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- Dutch
- Religion
- Reformed Christianity
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Image
- Abraham Kuyper - Griffis.jpg
- Number of children
- 8
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- 1837-10-29
- date of death
- 1920-11-08
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- date of burial or cremation
- 1920-11-12
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Encyclopedic overview
Abraham Kuyper (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər; Dutch: [ˈaːbraːɦɑm ˈkœypər]; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920) was the prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, and an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upon its foundation became the second largest Reformed denomination in the country behind the state-supported Dutch Reformed Church.
In addition, he founded the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, and a newspaper. In religious affairs, he sought to adapt the Dutch Reformed Church to challenges posed by the loss of state financial aid and by increasing religious pluralism in the wake of splits that the church had undergone in the 19th century, rising Dutch nationalism, and the Arminian religious revivals of his day which denied predestination. He vigorously denounced modernism in theology as a fad that would die out. In politics, he dominated the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) from its founding in 1879 to his death in 1920. He promoted pillarisation, the social expression of the anti-thesis in public life, whereby Protestant, Catholic and secular elements each had their own independent schools, universities and social organisations.
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