Thomas von der Dunk (born 2 July 1961 in Soestdijk) is a Dutch cultural historian, writer, and columnist who has written for de Volkskrant and HP/De Tijd.

Von der Dunk was raised in Bilthoven, and from 1979 to 1988 studied art history at the University of Amsterdam.

He was a doctoral candidate in the history department at Leiden University (1989–1993), and received his Ph.D. in 1994, having written a dissertation on the political and ideological characteristics of the cult of monuments in the Holy Roman Empire between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century.

[1] In April 2011, Von der Dunk was to give the annual Willem Arondéus lecture, organized by the States-Provincial of North Holland.

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