Calvin Seerveld
Calvin Seerveld was born and raised in the fishing village of West Sayville, Long Island, New York. After study at Calvin College (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.A.) he became a Fulbright student to the Netherlands. He did graduate study in Holland, Basel, Switzerland, and the University of Rome for 5 years, and received his PhD in philosophy and comparative literature from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.
He was among the original faculty at Trinity Christian College (Chicago), teaching philosophy there from 1959-72. Appointed to the chair of philosophical aesthetics at the graduate Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, he taught there from 1972-95 when he was emeritated. He has lectured in many places and continues to write both academic and popular articles in the area of theoretical aesthetics and methodology of art historiography. A recent book is Bearing Fresh Olive Leaves Alternative Steps in Understanding Aart (2001). There has also appeared a Seerveld Reader entitled In the Fields of the Lord (2001), edited by Craig Bartholomew, which contains many of Seerveld's lectures and shorter writings over the past years.