Dirk Albert Hooijer

Dirk Albert Hooijer (born May 30, 1919 in Medan , Sumatra , † November 26, 1993 in Leiden , Netherlands ), often only known by his abbreviation DA Hooijer, was a Dutch paleontologist.

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Hooijer spent his youth in Bogor on Java . In 1932 the family moved to The Hague , where he graduated from Dalton Den Haag in 1937. He then studied geology at the University of Leiden . In 1941 he was employed at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, where the main focus of his research was on fossil hippos and rhinos. In 1946 he became a curator for the collection of Eugène Dubois (1858–1940). In the same year he received his doctorate with a thesis Prehistoric and fossil rhinoceroses from the Malay Archipelago and India under Professor Hilbrand Boschma (1893-1976) to the doctor . From 1950 to 1951 he was on a Rockefeller Fellowship at the American Museum of Natural History . From 1970 until his retirement in 1979 he was a professor at the University of California at Irvine.

Hooijer authored 267 scientific articles on vertebrate fossils from Indonesia, Africa, the Middle East (especially Israel), the Netherlands, the Antilles and South America. Much of this work deals with fossil rhinos, cats, pigs, rodents, primates and proboscis. He described six new genera, including Celebochoerus , Chilotheridium , Epileptobos , Paradiceros , Paulocnus and Spelaeomys and 47 new species and subspecies, including the extinct deer species Babyrousa bolabatuensis .

Hooijer was married and had two daughters and a son.

literature

• Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis : 1820 - 1958 Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie Chjm Fransen, C. van Achterberg, Pj van Helsdingen (ed.) Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum 1995 ( PDF online ) (Dutch)

Web links

• Obituary Dirk Albert Hooijer