Abraham Dirk Loman
Abraham Dirk Loman | |
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| Born | 16 September 1823 |
| Died | 17 April 1897 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation | Theologian |
Abraham Dirk Loman (16 September 1823,
Life
Loman was the son of a minister in the Dutch Lutheran church. He started studying theology in 1840 and became a minister in 1846. In 1856 he became a professor at the Lutheran seminary in Amsterdam. Loman gradually lost his eyesight in the beginning of the 1870s, but continued working. From 1877 he also was a theology professor at the University of Amsterdam until his retirement in 1893.[3] His son Rudolf Loman was Dutch Chess Champion.
Work
Loman introduced modern theology in the Dutch Lutheran Church. He taught almost all disciplines of theology, but concentrated after 1867 on the New Testament and early Christian literature. He wrote a book about the
But after 1880 his views changed. He was an advocate of the
References
- ^ H.U. Meyboom (1898). "Levensbericht van A.D. Loman". Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde.
- ^ a b A.J. Allan (1995). "A Forgotten Chapter: the Radicals". Kerk & Wereld. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.
- ^ a b A. de Groot (1978). "Loman, Abraham Dirk". Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme.
- ^ Klaus Schilling (2003). "A survey: G.A. van den Bergh van Eysinga". Radikalkritik - de omnibus dubitandum. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.