Jan Van Bragt
Appearance
Jan Van Bragt (1928–2007) was a scholar of
Nagoya, Japan, where he served as its first acting director in 1976.[1]
Biography
Born in 1928 in Sint-Antonius-Brecht,
Hegel at the University of Leuven, which awarded him a doctorate in 1961. He left right away for Japan, where he spent 18 months learning the language and another 18 months as an assistant pastor at Sakai Catholic Church near Osaka before beginning further academic work at Kyoto University.[2]
He had earlier studied at
Nishitani Keiji, Religion and Nothingness (University of California Press
, 1983). He was also a key member of the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, serving as its president from 1989 to 1997.
References
- ^ Heisig, James W. (2007). "In memoriam: Jan Van Bragt (1928–2007)". Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 31: 61–64.
- ^ "Jan Van Bragt | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture". nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 14 September 2020.