William hendriksen biography

Jump to navigation. The publication of William Hendriksen's Commentary on the Gospel of John in was, as events were to prove, a major development in the history of the Trust.

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The volume had an immediate and far-flung influence and thereafter, along with the works of Dr Lloyd-Jones, Hendriksen's Commentaries were to be the most popular of all the Trust's publications by contemporary writers. The bond between the author and his British publishers had been firmly established for twenty years when we had the joy of welcoming Dr and Mrs William Hendriksen to our offices in Edinburgh on October 9, It was a day we shall not forget and in the course of it the following interview conducted by Iain Murray was recorded.

Does the name 'Hendriksen' mean anything in Dutch? The name occurs quite a bit in the Netherlands. I was born on Sunday, November 18, It is hard for me to think back to when I was two or three years of age but some of my first impressions, particularly of my father and my mother are important. My father, Bernardus Antonia Hendriksen was a carpenter and he also wrote a book of Dutch poetry.

He was born in Harderwijk, in the Gelderland province of the Netherlands, in He had no high school education but he was a very bright man and a perfectionist, with no end of patience. He became a carpenter and as there was more work in Tiel he moved there and met my mother, Jannetje van Ravesteyn.

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She was born in Buurmalsen, a village near Tiel, also in the year They married and lived in Tiel where my father had a carpenter's business. They were not rich people — just people with moderate means. I was the youngest in a family of eight sons and one daughter.