Open AccessEen kennismaking met Jenő Sebestyén (1884-1950)
Author(s) -
Maarten J. Aalders
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
documentatieblad voor de nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2665-9492
pISSN - 0923-7771
DOI - 10.5117/dnk2019.91.003.aald
Subject(s) - calvinism , george (robot) , context (archaeology) , period (music) , classics , management , humanities , political science , philosophy , history , law , art history , economics , archaeology , aesthetics
During the interwar period, the Hungarian theological professor Jenő Sebestyén was a well-known figure in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. He regularly visited the Netherlands and gave lots of lectures to raise money for charity work in Hungary. In 1930 the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam awarded him an honorary doctorate. After his death an In Memoriam appeared in Trouw on 8 June 1950, and on 12 April 1952 George Puchinger dedicated the issue of his magazine Polemios to this Hungarian neo-Calvinist. In the Netherlands there is little attention for him anymore. In this article I deal with three questions: how did Sebestyén come to study neo-Calvinism, what activities did he develop in that context, and what was the result of his efforts?