Jan Woltjer (classical scholar)

Woltjer, the son of a baker, started his career as an assistant teacher at a high school in his hometown of Groningen in 1867.

[2] His oldest son, Robert H. Woltjer, would follow him teaching classical studies at the Free University.

Along his many other students, including Herman Dooyeweerd, Woltjer had a formidable influence on future professor of philosophy, D. H. Th.

Woltjers subscribed to the idea that Greek learning was an integral part of what the New Testament refers to when it speaks of "the fulness of times."

The Greek learned constituted a preparatory education (paideia, cf Werner Jaeger) for the coming of Christ.