Louis (Wiep) van Bunge (born 1960) is a Dutchhistorian of philosophy. He has published mainly on the early Enlightenment in the Netherlands, onSpinoza and on his influence on other thinkers.
Van Bunge was born atThe Hague on 22 May 1960. He graduated B.A. and M.A. in philosophy atUtrecht University. He obtained his doctorate atErasmus University in Rotterdam with a dissertation onJohannes Bredenburg.[1]
From 2004 to 2012 van Bunge was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University, where he has been a professor since 2000. He is a member of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014),[2] and of theKoninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen.[1] Director of a research project of theNetherlands Organisation for Scientific Research on the Dutch early enlightenment in the period 2000-2005, he was co-director of another affiliated project on the same subject in the period 2010-2014. He has been co-editor of publications on and around Spinoza, and is a former editor of the journalGeschiedenis van de wijsbegeerte in Nederland.
Van Bunge was born into the Van Bunge family of Dutch nobility, and has the titleJonkheer. He is the son of Lodewijk Frederik Wilhelmus Maria van Bunge (1926–2009), journalist, and his second wife Ellie Lenie Emma Uitenbroek (born 1938), also a journalist .
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