Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (23 September 1894 in Utrecht – 31 August 1976 in Voorst) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and a representative of dialectical theology.
"[2] He self-published his sermons and articles from his period as a pastor (subsequently republished under the title Als een die dient...).
In this period, he published a great deal about literature (Henriëtte Roland Holst, Thomas Mann, etc.).
His radio sermons brought him to national prominence and made him known as a Dutch proponent of the theology of Swiss theologian Karl Barth.
In his dissertation, Miskotte addressed Judaism from a phenomenological perspective and introduced thinkers as Herman Cohen, Max Brod, Franz Rosenzweig, Ernst Bloch, and Martin Buber to the Dutch public.
His second major phenomenological study, Edda en Thora (1939), a comparison between the German and the Jewish religion over themes such as creation, fate, virtue, etc.
He published a volume titled Bijbelsch ABC (1941) on the basis of the Bible studies and discussion groups he held in Amsterdam-South.
Miskotte was revered by believers and nonbelievers alike due to his public resistance to fascism and National Socialism.
In 1945, after the Second World War, Miskotte was appointed as an ecclesiastical professor at the University of Leiden, where he taught the history of Reformed theology from the period of orthodoxy until Karl Barth.
After the wedding feast of a Jewish survivor of the war, Miskotte's wife and daughter experienced food poisoning and died.