Herman Dooyeweerd

Herman Dooyeweerd (7 October 1894, Amsterdam – 12 February 1977, Amsterdam) was a Dutch juridical scholar by training, who by vocation was a philosopher and the founder of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea. He received early support for his work from his brother-in-law D. H. Th. Vollenhoven. In recent years, it has been recognized that Dr Irg Hendrik van Riessen was the third leg of the stool in leading this scholarly movement in the Netherlands. Also of some significance were Pierre-Charles Marcel of France, Von Alamassy of Hungary, and later Hendrik G. Stoker in South Africa and Cornelius Van Til in the United States.