Gerard Bolland

Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland, short GJPJ Bolland ( born June 9, 1854 in Groningen, † February 11, 1922 in Leiden ) was a Dutch self-taught philosopher and scholar of religion. Bolland was first followers of Eduard von Hartmann, and then became the most important around the turn of the century representative of the Hegelian philosophy in the Netherlands; he worked as a translator, editor and commentator of Hegel's writings. After his death, the Dutch Hegelianism organized in Bolland Society of pure reason.

Life

Bolland was born in a simple Catholic family. He initially worked as a teacher. In 1896 he became professor of philosophy at the University of Leiden. Bolland was an expert of German Idealism, in particular the work of Eduard von Hartmann and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He was especially revived the work of Hegel in the Netherlands. For attention Bollands ensured research on the beginnings of Christianity. For the purposes of the Jesus myth he followed Bauer's work by he believed that Christianity developed from pre-Christian cults and flows through syncretism. Here he referred to Philo of Alexandria. Jesus of Nazareth as a historical person have, however, does not exist, but developed from the stories of these flows. Only in the first century, among the followers of early Christianity, the transformation of the mythical figure of Jesus had taken place in the legendary Jesus person.

Work (selection)

• Hegel. Eeny Historical Study ( 1898)
• Zuivere speech. Een boek voor vrienden the wijsheid (1904 )