page_title: Rudolph Cleveringa
section_title: After the war
hierarchical_section_title: Rudolph Cleveringa / After the war
caption_attribution_description: English: Honorary doctorate of Leiden University handed over to Winston Churchill by R.P. Cleveringa. Pieterskerk Leiden, 10 May 1946
context_page_description: Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa was a professor of law at Leiden University. He is known for his speech of 26 November 1940, in which he protested against the dismissal of Jewish colleagues ordered by the German occupation authorities.
context_section_description: Cleveringa, like Meijers, returned as a professor at Leiden University, which was reopened in September 1945. In 1946 he acted as honorary representative to Sir Winston Churchill in Leiden. The same year he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. On 8 April 1953, the American government awarded Cleveringa the Medal of Freedom for his resistance work. In 1958 he retired from the university but joined the Council of State and served until 1963, when he was named Councillor of State extraordinary.
caption: Honorary representative to Winston Churchill at the Pieterskerk, Leiden (1946)
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