Hendrik van Riessen

Hendrik Van Riessen (17 August 1911, in Bloemendaal, North Holland – 28 February 2000, in Bloemendaal) was one of the second generation of reformational philosophers arising from the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, after the first generation of Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th.

From 1951 he was professor at the Institute of Technology of Delft in the Netherlands.

He was an active participant in the Underground Movement during the Nazi occupation.

Carl Mitcham gave the first Van Riessen memorial lecture in April 2006.

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