biography
| name: |
Brugghen, Justinus Jacobus Leonard van der
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pronunciation:
[van der brukhen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1804–63)
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| biography:
| Dutch politician, anti-revolutionary, and lawyer, born in Nijmegen, E Netherlands. A member of the Provincial States of Gelderland and of parliament, he became minister of justice (1856), and was responsible for reorganizing the primary school system. He was brought up in the Reveil, and supported ethical principles. He tried to solve some of the problems of the ‘school funding controversy’ (schoolstrijd), encouraging special confessional schools and mixed state schools, teaching both Christian and social virtues, in the 1857 School Act. He was opposed by Groen van Prinsteren, who favoured separate confessional state schools, and offended many of his co-religionists. He resigned in 1858 after his bill for personal taxation was rejected. |
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