Herman Bavinck

The Reverend

Herman Bavinck
The Reverend; Herman Bavinck
	Bavinck c. 1913
Born	13 December 1854; Hoogeveen, Netherlands
Died	29 July 1921 (aged 66); Amsterdam, Netherlands
Political party	Anti-Revolutionary Party
Spouse	Johanna A. Schippers (m. 1891)
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christian (Continental Reformed)
Church	Christian Reformed Church; Reformed Churches in the Netherlands
Ordained	c. 1881
Academic background
Alma mater	Kampen Theological Seminary; Leiden University;
Thesis	A Succinct Demonstration of the Influence of Schleiermacher upon the Exposition of Holy Scripture
Doctoral advisor	Jan Hendrik Scholten
Influences	Thomas Aquinas; Augustine of Hippo; Abraham Kuyper; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Friedrich Schleiermacher; John Calvin;
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Dogmatic theology
School or tradition	Neo-Calvinism
Institutions	Kampen Theological Seminary; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;
Notable works	Reformed Dogmatics (1895–1901)
Influenced	Louis Berkhof; John Bolt; Herman Hoeksema; Tim Keller; Abraham Kuyper; Hendrik G. Stoker; Cornelius Van Til; D. H. Th. Vollenhoven;

Herman Bavinck (13 December 1854 – 29 July 1921) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and churchman. He was a significant scholar in the Calvinist tradition, alongside Abraham Kuyper, B. B. Warfield, and Geerhardus Vos.

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