Allard Pierson

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Allard Pierson

Allard Pierson (born April 8, 1831 in Amsterdam , † May 27, 1896 in Almen (province of Gelderland )) was a Dutch theologian and art historian .

Life

Allard Pierson was the son of the Amsterdam merchant Jan Lodwijk Gregory Pierson (1806–1873) and a brother of Nicolaas Pierson , a banker and prime minister. He received his doctorate in Protestant theology from the University of Utrecht with the dissertation De realismo et nominalismo on the problem of universals . He was a preacher in Rotterdam from 1857 to 1865 .

Then he resigned his ministry because he could not reconcile his beliefs with those of his church. From 1870 to 1874 he taught at the Protestant theological faculty of Heidelberg University . Then he became Professor of Art History, Aesthetics and Modern Languages ​​at the University of Amsterdam . In 1876 he published a 150-page review of two dogmatic-theological works under the title A funeral , which was considered the most devastating criticism of Dutch theology to date. She contributed to a reform of higher education, including in theological faculties, in the Netherlands.

Publications

  • Intimis. Mededeelingen , Utrecht 1861; 5th edition 1881
  • Poems (Haarlem 1882)
  • Richting en leven , 2nd edition, Haarlem 1883; German, Berlin 1866
  • Geschiedenis van het katholicisme , 4 vols., Haarlem 1865–72
  • Een studië over de scripted van Israëls propeten , Amsterdam 1877
  • Studiën over Joh. Kalvyn , Amsterdam 1880; new series 1883 and 1891
  • Verisimilia , written together with Naber, Amsterdam 1886
  • Geestelijke voorouders , 3 vols. Haarlem 1887–93

Furthermore, Pierson translated the Oresteia of Aeschylus into Dutch (The Hague, 1882). A two-volume collection of his writings, published from 1882 to 1894, was published in The Hague from 1901 to 1905.

literature

  • Arie L. Molendijk: Farewell to Christianity: The Allard Pierson Case. In: Henri Krop, Arie L. Molendijk, Hent de Vries (ed.): Post-Theism: Reframing the Judeo-Christian Tradition. Peeters, Leuven 2000, ISBN 904290853X , pp. 141-157
  • E. Bergvelt, Peter Jan Knegtmans, M. Schilder (eds.): Kleurrijke professoren druk 1: 375 jaar portretkunst in de collectie van de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 9056294490 , pp. 72–77 (Dutch / English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arie L. Molendijk: "Non-binding Talk": The Fate of Friedrich Schleiermacher's Concept of Historical-Empirical Dogmatics. In: Brent W. Sockness, Wilhelm Gräb (Ed.): Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology: A Transatlantic Dialogue. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 3110216337 , p. 203
personal data
SURNAME Pierson, Allard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch theologian and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1896
Place of death Almen ( Gelderland Province )