After studying at
Utrecht University, he was appointed professor of theology in 1840 at
Franeker. From Franeker in 1843 he went to Leiden as professor
extraordinarius, and in 1845 was promoted to the rank of
ordinarius. Through Scholten,
Abraham Kuenen became interested in theology; Scholten was not then the radical theologian he became later. The two scholars in course of time created a movement resembling that of the
Tübingen School in Germany. From his theology there "began to rise a different type of spirit, the spirit of absolute
antisupernaturalism of the German idealistic kind." ==Notes==