Gerardus van der Leeuw
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Gerardus van der Leeuw (1890–1950) was a Dutch historian and philosopher of religion.
He is best known for his work Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenolgy, an application of philosophical phenomenology to religion. It was first published in 1933 under the German title Phänomenolgie der Religionen and translated into English in 1938.
From 1945–1946 van der Leeuw was minister of Eduction of the Netherlands for the Labour Party. Before the war he had been a member of the conservative Christian Historical Union.
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