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| Born | (1961-07-02)2 July 1961 (age 64) Soestdijk, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation(s) | Columnist, writer |
Thomas von der Dunk (born 2 July 1961 inSoestdijk) is a Dutchcultural historian, writer, and columnist who has written forde Volkskrant andHP/De Tijd.
Von der Dunk was raised inBilthoven, and from 1979 to 1988 studied art history at theUniversity of Amsterdam. He was a doctoral candidate in the history department atLeiden University (1989–1993), and received his Ph.D. in 1994, having written a dissertation on the political and ideological characteristics of the cult of monuments in theHoly Roman Empire between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century. He worked atUtrecht University from 1994 to 1999, and from 1999 to 2002 again in Leiden.
Since 2002 he has been working as a freelance writer andpundit. From 2010 to 2011 he wrote a regular column forHP/De Tijd, but was fired in March 2011, and is now an online columnist forde Volkskrant and a columnist for the regional paperDe Gelderlander.[1]
In April 2011, Von der Dunk was to give the annualWillem Arondéus lecture, organized by theStates-Provincial ofNorth Holland. The rulingChristian Democratic Appeal-People's Party for Freedom and Democracy government coalition, supported by theParty for Freedom, cancelled the lecture, asserting that his lecture was too partisan.[clarification needed][2] However, the Christian Democratic Appeal and People's Party for Freedom and Democracy later[when?] decided to let Von der Dunk give his lecture anyway.
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