David T. Runia

David Theunis Runia (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch-Australian classical scholar and educational administrator who has worked in both Australia and the Netherlands.

Runia was born in the Noord Oost Polder, The Netherlands. At the age of four he immigrated to Australia when his father Klaas Runia took up a chair at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong. After attending Newtown State School and The Geelong College, he studied Classics at the University of Melbourne from 1969 to 1976 and was a resident of Queen’s College from 1969 to 1971. In 1977 he returned to the Netherlands, where he obtained his doctorate at the Free University, Amsterdam in 1983.

In 1992, Runia was appointed to the Chair of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Leiden University. In 2002 he returned to Australia on his appointment as Master of Queen’s College at the University of Melbourne, a position he held until retiring at the of 2016. He is currently a Professorial fellow in the School of Historical Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. In March 2017 he was appointed Director of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University.. He has also been a Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, since 2007.

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