Willem van Manen

Willem Christiaan van Manen (8 August 1842 in Noordeloos – 12 July 1905 in Leiden) was a Dutch theologian. He was professor in early Christian literature and New Testament exegesis at Leiden University (1885–1903) and belonged to the Dutch school of Radical Criticism.Eduard Verhoef, Manen, Willem Christiaan van, in "Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme" (1998)
Van Manen's 1865 doctoral thesis in Utrecht about the authenticity of 1 Thessalonians concluded that this was a genuine... more