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Herman de Vries de Heekelingen
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Dr. Herman de Vries de Heekelingen, D.Litt. (18 June 1880 – 27 July 1942) was a Dutch scholar and author who lived the latter half of his life in Switzerland. He was professor of palaeography at the University of Nijmegen (with specialization in archaeology, prehistory, and ancient history) and was director of its library from 1923–1927.
De Vries authored of a number of books on the Jewish question, and has been described as an antisemitic ideologue.
De Vries was born in Groningen, Netherlands, and raised in a well-to-do Calvinist merchant family. In 1908, he converted to Roman Catholicism, and began his studies at the University of Fribourg, where he received his doctorate in 1917 with a thesis on Geneva as the birthplace of . He acquired Swiss citizenship in 1921. In 1923, he was appointed to the newly established Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen as associate professor of paleography and diplomatics, and head of the University Library. His politics were anti-modernist and Integralist, and he was a member of the right-leaning Catholic Commission Catholique de Coopération Intellectuelle [Catholic Commission on Intellectual Cooperation].
In 1927, he had a falling out with the management of the University and took his leave. Resettling in Switzerland, he took de Heekelingen to his name. The same year, De Vries founded the "Centre International d'Études sur le Fascisme" [International Centre for Studies on Fascism] (CINEF) in Lausanne, which was devoted to documentation, research, and international distribution of fascist ideology. Among prominent board members were Giovanni Gentile, James Strachey Barnes, Marcel Boulenger, and Lord Sydenham of Combe. On several occasions, De Vries had a personal audience with Benito Mussolini.
In 1932, he founded a Centre International de Documentation sur les Organisations Politiques [Documentation Centre of International Political Organizations] at Château de la Maison Blanche in Yvorne, Vaud, Switzerland.
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