Gilles van Overbeek de Meijer

Gilles van Overbeek de Meijer

Gilles van Overbeek de Meijer also: Overbeck de Meyer (born March 2, 1831 in Rotterdam , † July 13, 1918 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch medic.

Life

Overbeek de Meijer was the son of the painter Gilles de Meijer (born January 6, 1790 Rotterdam; † January 23, 1867 in The Hague) and his wife Maria van den Helm (born May 12, 1799 in Delft; † March 5, 1851 in Utrecht). He studied for four years at the Military Medical State School in Utrecht and on July 21, 1851 became an officer in 3rd class medicine. He then worked as a naval doctor in the Dutch East Indies and was promoted to officer 2nd class on his return on June 16, 1858. On May 31, 1865 he received his doctorate from the University of Leiden with the thesis Over den invloed van zeereizen en het verblijf in warm luchtstreken op de ontwikkeling en het verloop van tuberculosis pulmonum as a doctor of medicine. On January 31, 1866, he became deputy inspector of the medical condition surveillance of the province of Gelderland and the city of Utrecht. After he had taken over the management of the institution in 1876, he was appointed professor of hygiene and forensic medicine at the University of Utrecht on October 1, 1877 . He took on this task on December 14, 1877 with the introductory speech Het regt van het onderwijs in gezondheidsleer aan de Hoogeschool .

In his capacity as a Utrecht university lecturer, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1886/87 . He put this task down with a speech about the past academic year. Overbeek de Meijer campaigned for the hygienic and medical control of prostitution, campaigned for compulsory vaccinations against smallpox, investigated healing possibilities for cholera and initiated hygienically controlled drinking water pipes. He participated in medical congresses in Europe on hygiene issues and was accepted into various scientific societies. On June 25, 1867, he became a member of the Provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences, on March 9, 1869 a member of the Association for the Dissemination of Public Health in Utrecht, on January 19, 1881 officer at the Academy of the Institut de France , and in 1888 an honorary member of the Epidemiological Society in London, honorary member of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium on May 28, 1887, member of the Dutch Society for the Promotion of Nature, Health and Medicine in 1890 and honorary member of the Hungarian National Association for Hygiene in 1895. On September 19, 1884 he became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion , on April 24, 1893, he was awarded the Turkish Mecidiye Order, 3rd Class, and on September 5, 1886, he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor . On May 27, 1898, he renounced his professorship and was retired on October 1 of the same year, for which he received a pension of 3000 guilders.

family

Overbeek de Meijer was married twice. His first marriage was on February 2, 1857 in Kedirie-Toeloengagoeng (Java) with Arendina Maria Hendrika Canne (* August 1, 1832 in Leersum; † April 6, 1858 in Delft), the daughter of the teacher Coert Daniel Canne (* 13 August 1809 in Amsterdam; † April 27, 1849 Noordwijk) and his wife Henrietta Louisa Brandt (born February 8, 1796 in Amsterdam; † March 31, 1868 in Rotterdam). His second marriage was on October 4, 1860 in The Hague with Johanna Maria de Bas (* October 23, 1841 in The Hague; † December 30, 1925 in Utrecht), the daughter of Willem Jacobus de Bas (* August 24, 1802 in Amsterdam; † October 1, 1864 in Rijswijk) and Johanna Maria Köhler (born March 7, 1809 in The Hague; † September 24, 1872 in Utrecht). Children came from marriages. We know of these:

• Jan Willem Hendrik Overbeek de Meijer (* February 8, 1858 in Delft † February 25, 1858 ibid)
• Henriette Louise Marie Overbeek de Meijer (* February 8, 1858 in Delft; † March 12, 1858 ibid)
• Johanna Maria van Overbeek de Meijer (born May 3, 1862 in The Hague; † September 25, 1932 in Utrecht) married. October 18, 1887 in Utrecht with Leopold Ferdinand Dentz (* August 12, 1858 in Amsterdam: † January 25, 1903 in Helmond)
• Maria Henrietta van Overbeek de Meijer (born April 6, 1864 in Zuijdhoorn near Rijswijk, † September 3, 1868 in Baarn)
• Willem Jacques van Overbeek de Meijer (born March 18, 1867 in Utrecht, † April 25, 1937 ibid) married. April 27, 1893 in Utrecht with Cornelia Françoise Henriette Cornelissen (born February 16, 1866 in Melambong (Res.Soerakarta, Java Island); † November 17, 1943 in Amersfoort)
• Maria Henriette van Overbeek de Meijer (born June 26, 1869 in Utrecht, † February 19, 1943 in Barneveld) married. April 19, 1894 in Utrecht with Gideon Jan Oudemans (born October 31, 1860 in Jakarta (Java); † November 8, 1933 in Ginneken)

Works (selection)

• Scheepsgezondheidsleer. Tiel 1861 and 1862, 2nd vol.
• Beri-beri, describe naar hetgeen omtrent die ziekte dead heden known to be made. 1864
• Over den invloed van zeereizen en het verblijf in warm luchtstreken op de ontwikkeling en het verloop van tuberculosis pulmonum. The Hague, 1865, ( online )
• Het regt van het onderwijs in gezondheidsleer aan de Hoogeschool. 1877
• Het Geneeskundig toezicht op de Prostitutie. Amsterdam 1883
• Community cleaning. Eene vraag van den dag. Utrecht 1885
• Verslag uit van de lotgevallen of the Utrecht University in het studienjaar 1886-1887 Utrecht 1887
• Advies aan de Commissie van de Vereeniging voor de behartiging of the interests of van de badplaats Scheveningen concerning de reiniging van het grachtwater te 's-Gravenhage door spuiing en afvoer naar zee. The Hague 1889
• De wapenen van den heer H. Pierson, predikant te Zetten, in den strijd met zijne tegenstanders, en de kennis en het streven van de Nederlandsche Vereeniging tegen de prostitutie. Utrecht 1889
• Wenken bij het naderen the Aziatische cholera. 1892
• Schets of bacteriological technology. 1893
• Kleeding en hygiène. 1895

Web links

• Overbeek de Meijer in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Brief vita at the University Museum Utrecht