Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga

Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga (27 June 1874 in The Hague – 26 May 1957 in Haarlem) was a Dutch theologian. From 1936 to 1944 he was professor in New Testament exegesis at the University of Amsterdam. He belonged to the Dutch school of Radical Criticism. Bergh van Eysinga was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.

Life After attending school in Sneek, Van den Bergh van Eysinga started studying theology at Leiden University in 1893. He obtained a doctorate in 1901 on a thesis about Indian influences on early Christian stories, for which W.C. van Manen had been the thesis advisor. After working as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, he was appointed a professor in New Testament exegesis at the University of Amsterdam in 1936. After his retirement in 1944, he continued teaching at the University of Utrecht until the year of his death in 1957. On these matters he disagreed with Adolf von Harnack.

Selected publications

Radical views about the New Testament (Open Court Publishing Company, 1912) The Spuriousness of the Pauline Epistles. Exemplified by the Epistle to the Galatians, originally published in Radical Views about the New Testament, translated from the Dutch by S. B. Slack (London: Watts, 1912), 59-90, published in Journal of Higher Criticism 6/1 (Spring 1999) Early Christianity's Letters, republished in Journal of Higher Criticism 9/2 (Fall 2002), 294-317