Thomas von der Dunk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Thomas von der Dunk

Dutch historian and writer

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1961

Place of Birth: Soestdijk, Utrecht, Netherlands

Profession: historian, columnist, art historian

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Thomas von der Dunk

  • Thomas von der Dunk (Soestdijk, 2 July 1961) is a Dutch cultural historian, writer, and columnist who has written for de Volkskrant and HP/De Tijd. Von der Dunk was raised in Bilthoven, and from 1979 to 1988 studied art history at the University of Amsterdam.
  • He was a doctoral candidate in the history department at Leiden University (1989–1993), and received his Ph.D.
  • in 1994, having written a dissertation on the political and ideological characteristics of the cult of monuments in the Holy Roman Empire between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century.
  • He worked at Utrecht University from 1994 to 1999, and from 1999 to 2002 again in Leiden. Since 2002 he has been working as a freelance writer and pundit.
  • From 2010 to 2011 he wrote a regular column for HP/De Tijd, but was fired in March 2011, and is now an online columnist for de Volkskrant and a columnist for the regional paper De Gelderlander.In April 2011, Von der Dunk was to give the annual Willem Arondéus lecture, organized by the States-Provincial of North-Holland.
  • The ruling Christian Democratic Appeal-People's Party for Freedom and Democracy government coalition, supported by the Party for Freedom, cancelled the lecture, asserting that his lecture was too partisan.
  • However, the Christian Democratic Appeal and People's Party for Freedom and Democracy later decided to let Von der Dunk give his lecture anyway.

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