Geerhardus Vos
Geerhardus Johannes Vos was a Dutch-American Calvinist theologian, often called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology.
Born in the Netherlands in 1862, he emigrated to America with his family as a teenager.
He studied at Calvin Theological Seminary, Princeton, and earned his doctorate in Germany.
Declining a prestigious Amsterdam professorship, he became Princeton Seminary's first Professor of Biblical Theology in 1892.
He taught alongside Machen and Warfield, authoring influential works including Pauline Eschatology and Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments.
He retired to California in 1932 and is recognized as a foundational figure in biblical theology.
