Cees Datema
Dutch academic (1944–2004) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cees "Cornelis" Datema (1944-2004) was a Dutch academic with special focus on Latin and Greek and the preaching of the early church fathers. He obtained his PhD from Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam in 1970 and his original thesis on Asterius of Amasea[1] is still used in teaching the subject today. From 1987 to 1993 he was the Rector Magnificus of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam[2] following which he joined the board of the Open University of Amsterdam as its chairman.
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Next to his academic work and publications, he was also very involved with the implementation of reforming legislation for higher education MUB-Act adopted in 1997 through leading the Datema commission in 1998.[3]
Cees Datema was born in 1944 in Oudehorne in the Netherlands, lived for many years in Woerden before he retired to Amsterdam, where he died in 2004.[4]