ds. Johannes Paulus Stricker

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https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Paulus_Stricker

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Johannes Paulus Stricker was a theologian and biblical scholar. He attended the University of Leiden where he worked with J. F. van Oordt, a key figure in the new Groningen theology. He sat his ordination examination in May 1841, and was appointed to a ministerial post in October of that year. In December of that year, he married Willemina Carbentus, an older sister of Vincent van Gogh's mother. As an uncle he tutored the young Vincent in theology and biblical criticism in 1877-78.

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Number 12 in the picture of Opa Stricker's 80th Birthday: http://www.camerama.demon.nl/bergh/verj/index.html.

Dutch Theologian, and biblical scholar. He attended the University of Leiden where he worked with J. F. van Oordt, a key figure in the new Groningen theology.