Tjitze Baarda

Tjitze Baarda (8 July 1932 – 23 August 2017) was a Dutch professor of theology and Religious Sciences. He spent his career at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and Utrecht University. He specialized in the four gospels of the New Testament.

Career Baarda was born on 8 July 1932 in Vogelenzang. He studied theology and Semitic languages at the VU. He obtained his doctorate in 1975 with a dissertation titled "The gospel quotations of Aphrahat the Persian sage". His doctoral advisors were Matthew Black and R. Schippers. Baarda subsequently became a professor of Biblical criticism, exegesis and canon of the New Testament at the same university.

Baarda became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982.

Baarda died in Amstelveen on 23 August 2017.