Hans Rookmaaker

As a junior officer, he began to study ship construction at Delft University prior to the start of World War II.

[1] As Rookmaaker was a naval officer, he was interned as a prisoner of war in Stanislau, now Ukraine and later on in Neubrandenburg in northern Germany.

Jesus came to make us fully human" formed the central theme of Dick Staub's 2010 book About You.

With his expert ear of black music, multi-cultural roots and after a profound change of direction, he devoted his PhD to the ideas of Paul Gauguin and how they influenced his paintings.

His broad international perspective brought a large number of foreign students to the department at a time when this was still far from usual.

[5][1] From 1955 onwards he frequently visited his friend Francis Schaeffer to lecture at the Swiss l’Abri community in Huémoz.

He took Schaeffer on a tour to address Dutch audiences and started l'Abri meetings for university students in his Amsterdam home.

More and more Rookmaaker focused his career on motivating Christian believers to take culture seriously and live a life that integrates conviction and deeds.

Traces of his influence are still to be found in many places, while the present awakening of Evangelicals to the arts [6] proves Rookmaaker's prophetic stand.