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Prof. Martinus Cobbenhagen
Martinus Cobbenhagen (1893-1954) was admitted to the
priesthood in 1917, then went on to study Economics in
Rotterdam. Ten years later, he was awarded his PhD for
a thesis on responsibility in business. From 1927,
Cobbenhagen was Professor of Economics at the Roman
Catholic Commercial College, the predecessor of Tilburg
University. There he wrote the blueprint for a curriculum
with a solid academic basis but also a strong focus upon
the practical side of socioeconomic life. Ethics played an
important role in this, so Philosophy was a compulsory
subject from the outset. It was thanks to these initiatives
and stimuli, his dedication to college administration and
his interest in students and their lives that Cobbenhagen
was nicknamed 'the father of the college community'.
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