About Hendrik van Eikema Hommes
Lived 1930 – 1984 (aged 54). Hendrik van Eikema Hommes was a Dutch philosopher, university teacher and jurist.
Hendrik Jan van Eikema Hommes (May 3, 1930, IJlst – September 3, 1984, Bussum) was a noted Dutch legal scholar and successor to Herman Dooyeweerd in the post of philosopher and judicial scholar at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Van Eikema Hommes wrote an Introduction to the Philosophy of Dooyeweerd, along with numerous legal studies. He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983.
Academic works Major trends in the history of legal philosophy. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1979. "Freedom and equality in constitutional and civil law." In: Equality and Freedom: International and Comparative Jurisprudence. Papers of the World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. St Louis, 1975. Vol. III, 1977, pp. 1085–1094.
"Legal Order and Legal Principles," in Symposia I (Memoria del X Congreso mundial ordinario de filosofía del derecho y filosofía social 5; Universidad nacional autónoma de México, 1981), pp. 43–56.
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Dutch philosopher (1930–1984)
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Hendrik van Eikema Hommes was born on 3 May 1930 in IJlst.
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Hendrik van Eikema Hommes died on 3 September 1984 in Bussum.
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Hendrik van Eikema Hommes was a philosopher, university teacher and jurist.
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