Peter Hans Kolvenbach
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The Very Reverend Peter Hans Kolvenbach SJ |
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| 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus | |
| Installed | 13 September 1983 |
| Term ended | 14 January 2008 |
| Predecessor | Pedro Arrupe |
| Successor | Adolfo Nicolás Pachón |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 29 June 1961 by Armenian Catholic Church |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Peter Hans Kolvenbach |
| Born |
30 September 1928 Druten, Netherlands |
| Died | 26 September 2016 (aged 87) Beirut, Lebanon |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Jesuit professor, linguist |
| Education | Canisius College, Nijmegen |
| Alma mater | Université de Saint-Joseph, Beirut |
Peter Hans Kolvenbach SJ (30 November 1928 – 26 November 2016), was the 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the largest male Catholic religious order.
Kolvenbach's childhood was spent in Druten, near Nijmegen in the Netherlands. There, he attended Canisius College for his secondary studies, where he concentrated on modern languages. He entered the novitiate at Mariendaal on 7 September 1948. After completing philosophy studies at Berchmans Institute in Nijmegen, he was assigned to Lebanon, where he completed his doctorate in Sacred Theology at Université de Saint-Joseph in Beirut. On 29 June 1961, he was ordained a priest in the Armenian Catholic Church, an Eastern-rite church in communion with Rome.
The next years of his life were spent in academia, specifically in linguistics. From 1964 to 1976 he taught general and Oriental linguistics in The Hague, Paris, and then Beirut where he became Professor of General Linguistics and Armenian at Université Saint-Joseph. He served in that capacity until 1981, when he became rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute.
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