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Willem Bonger
Dutch criminologist and sociologist
Willem Adriaan Bonger (September 6, 1876 – May 15, 1940) was a Dutch criminologist and sociologist.
Willem bonger biography of michael
He is considered an early Marxist criminologist which through his work, criminology stood out as an autonomous science, making its interrelationship with sociology more evident according to a scientific approach.
Biography
Bonger was born in to a middle-class and intellectual family.
His father Hendrik worked in an insurance company in Amsterdam and was the first to enable him, the youngest of ten children, to study at university. Both of his parents were Remonstrant Protestants.[1] Willem's older brother Andries was an art dealer and friends with the brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh, and his sister Johanna was the wife of Theo van Gogh.
Bonger attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam and took up law studies at the University of Amsterdam in 1895, where he heard, among other things, criminal law from GA v