Abraham Kuyper
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| 24th Prime Minister of the Netherlands | |
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In office 1 August 1901 – 17 August 1905 |
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| Monarch | Wilhelmina |
| Preceded by | Nicolaas Pierson |
| Succeeded by | Theo de Meester |
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Abraham Kuijper 29 October 1837 Maassluis, Netherlands |
| Died | 8 November 1920 (aged 83) The Hague, Netherlands |
| Political party | Anti-Revolutionary |
| Spouse(s) | Johanna Hendrika Schaay |
| Children | 8 |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| Occupation | Theologian, Journalist, Minister |
| Religion | Dutch Reformed |
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Abraham Kuijper (/ˈkaɪpər/; Dutch: [ˈaːbraːɦɑm ˈkœypər]; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920), generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch journalist, statesman and Neo-Calvinist theologian. He was a master organiser. He founded a new church (the Gereformeerde Kerken), a newspaper, the Free University of Amsterdam, and the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. In religious affairs, he sought to adapt the Dutch Reformed Church to the challenges posed by the loss of state financial aid and by religious pluralism, rising nationalism, and the Arminian religious revivals of his day which denied predestination. He vigorously denounced modernism in theology as a fad that would pass away. In politics, he dominated the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) from its founding in 1879 to his death in 1920. He promoted pillarisation, the social expression of the anti-thesis in public life, whereby Protestant, Catholic and secular elements each had their own independent schools, universities and social organisations.
Abraham Kuijper was born on 29 October 1837 in Maassluis in the Netherlands. His father Jan Frederik Kuyper served as a minister for the Dutch Reformed Church in Hoogmade, Maassluis, Middelburg and Leiden.
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