Jan van der Hoeven

Jan van der Hoeven

Jan van der Hoeven (9 March 1801, Rotterdam - 11 March 1861, Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist. His most famous book is "Handboek der Dierkunde" (1827 - 1833), translated into German and English (by prof. Clark). He wrote as readily about crocodiles as about butterflies, lancelets and lemurs.

Jan van der Hoeven came from a wealthy family of merchants in Rotterdam. In 1819 he moved to Leiden. In 1822 he got a degree in physics and in 1824 in medicine. After a visit to Paris he started working as a family doctor in Rotterdam, but in 1826 he was appointed Professor of Zoology and Mineralogy at the University of Leiden. He also married in that year with Anna van Stolk. In his youth Van der Hoeven was influenced by and paid tribute to the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder and he was friendly with Willem Bilderdijk, a prominent Dutch lawyer, author and historian, known for his Revivalism. Two of his brothers were also professor: Abraham was a Remonstrant theologian, Cornelis a physician.

By the 19th century it had become impossible to understand and comprehend all knowledge, but Van der Hoeven was a rather old fashioned scientist, (representing the Biedermeier era) and a generalist: neither specializing, nor becoming a theoreticist. In 1834 he started a magazine in "Natural History and Physiology". Van der Hoeven was also involved in education, writing a biology book for pupils in secondary school, although, paradoxically, he was one of the last professors in Leiden to teach in Latin. In 1860 he asked permission to leave the university. In 1864 he published "Philosophia zoologica.

References

*Anonym 1867-1868: [Hoeven, J. van der] "Proc. Linn. Soc. London" 1867-68 CX-CXI
*Anonym 1868 [Hoeven, J. van der] "Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist." (6) , London [1] (4)
*Osborn, H. 1952 "A Brief History of Entomology Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with over Five Hundred Portraits". Columbus, Ohio, The Spahr & Glenn Company.
*Lubach, D. (1868) Jan van der Hoeven geschetst door. In: Album der Natuur, p. 161-165.

External links

* [http://books.google.nl/books?id=is7b2ZpsGv8C&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=%22Jan+van+der+Hoeven%22+Leiden&source=web&ots=cFUL4tXov4&sig=zmXYWjmJRS4LhWfm5JW66ezhs6A&hl=nl#PPA48,M1 Google books on Van der Hoeven]
* http://www.zalf.de/home_zalf/institute/dei/php/biograph/biograph.php


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