G. Ch. Aalders

Gerhard Charles Aalders (25 March 1880 – 30 January 1961), usually styled as G. Ch. Aalders, was a Dutch Old Testament scholar. He was born in London to an English mother and a Dutch father. He studied from 1897 to 1903 at the Free University of Amsterdam.^[2] He served as a minister of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands from 1903 to 1920, and as Professor of Old Testament at the Free University from 1920 to 1950.^[3] He was rector magnificus of that institution twice.

G. Ch. Aalders
G. Ch. Aalders in 1931
Born	Gerhard Charles Aalders (1880-03-25)March 25, 1880 London, England, U.K.
Died	January 30, 1961(1961-01-30) (aged 80) Heemstede, North Holland, Netherlands
Occupation	Author, professor
Language	Dutch
Citizenship	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Alma mater	Free University of Amsterdam
Subject	Young Earth creationism
Years active	1920s-1961
Notable works	A Short Introduction to the Pentateuch
Spouse	Maria Westerink ​ (m. 1903)​ [1]
Children	4

Aalders is best known for his books A Short Introduction to the Pentateuch (which I. Howard Marshall says kept him going during his student days)^[4] and The Problem of the Book of Jonah. He also wrote a number of commentaries in the Korte Verklaring series: Genesis, Daniel, Esther, Jeremiah, and Lamentations.^[5] He was an editor of the series "Commentaar op het Oude Testament" and wrote the commentary "Het Hooglied".^[6] He played a mayor role in creating the Dutch translation of the Bible of the Dutch Bible Society.^[2]

Historian George Harinck suggests that, along with Seakle Greijdanus, F. W. Grosheide, and Jan Ridderbos, Aalders "took the lead in Neo-Calvinist exegetical production."^[7] According to historian of science Abraham Flipse, Aalders introduced American-style Young Earth creationism into the Netherlands in the 1930s.^[8]

References

1. "Gerhard Charles Aalders". FamilySearch. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
2. "Aalders, Gerhard Charles (1880-1961)". Huygens Institute (in Dutch). 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
3. "Gerhard Charles Aalders," in Tyndale Bulletin 9 (1961), p. 2. Archived 2012-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
4. Marshall, I. Howard (1 July 2004). Beyond the Bible (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Moving from Scripture to Theology. Baker Books. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-4412-0663-3. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
5. "K .V. (Korte Verklaring)". Antiquariaat Müller (in Afrikaans). Archived from the original on 26 June 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
6. Verhoef, Pieter A. Aalders, G. Ch. (ed.). "Commentaar op het Oude Testament" [Commentary on the Old Testament] (in Dutch). OCLC 3372136. Retrieved 28 March 2023. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. Meer, Jitse M. van der; Mandelbrote, Scott (2008). Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: God, Scripture and the rise of modern science (1200-1700). Brill. p. 346. ISBN 978-90-04-17192-3. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
8. Flipse, Abraham C. (2012). "The Origins of Creationism in the Netherlands: The Evolution Debate among Twentieth-Century Dutch Neo-Calvinists" (PDF). Church History. 81: 126. doi:10.1017/S000964071100179X. S2CID 145383231.