Jan Adrianus Aertsen (7 September 1938 – 7 January 2016) was a Dutch philosopher and theologian.[2] Born in Amsterdam, Aertsen received his PhD title at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and taught there from 1984 up to his death.[2] From 1993 to 2004, he served as a professor at the University of Cologne, and was the founding director of Thomas Instituut te Utrecht.[2][3] He wrote several works on Thomism, starting from his doctoral thesis, Nature and Creature. Thomas Aquinas’s Way of Thought (1988), published in Dutch four years later.[2]
