Hendrik Albertus Brouwer

Hendrik Albertus Brouwer (born September 20, 1886 in Medemblik , † November 18, 1973 in Bloemendaal ) was a Dutch geologist , paleontologist, petrologist and mineralogist, professor at the University of Amsterdam . He is known for research in Indonesia .

life and work

Brouwer is the brother of the mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer . He grew up in Haarlem and studied mining at the TH Delft with Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff and in Paris with the mineralogist Antoine Lacroix . In 1910 he received his doctorate, where he also undertook a research trip to South Africa. Then he went to the mining authority in the Dutch East Indies (Dienst van Mijnbouw). In 1911 he took part in the expedition from Molengraaff to Timor. He mapped and collected in Timor, Sumatra and the Moluccas, among others, before he returned to the Netherlands in 1917 and became Professor of Historical Geology and Paleontology at the TH Delft. From 1928 he was professor of geology and petrology at the University of Amsterdam as the successor to Eugène Dubois . In 1956 he retired.

Brouwer dealt with tectonics and petrology and the connection between the two disciplines. He organized two expeditions from the University of Amsterdam to Indonesia, in 1929 to Celebes and in 1937 to Timor, among others . In Europe he carried out research in Lapland , southern Spain ( Betic Cordillera ) and Corsica, among others .

In 1956 he received the Gustav Steinmann Medal in recognition of the outstanding services he has made to the geology of Indonesia and to petrological-tectonic research .

His students include Reinout Willem van Bemmelen , who also studied the geology of Indonesia and was a professor in Utrecht, and Willem Paul de Roever , professor in Leiden.

Fonts

• Geological overzichtskaart van den Nederlandsch-East-Indian archipelago, Batavia 1917
• Geological onderzoekingen op de Sangi-Eilanden en op de eilanden Ternate en Pisang, 's-Gravenhage 1921
• The geology of the Netherlands East Indies: lectures delivered as exchange-professor at the University of Michigan in 1921-1922, University of Michigan Studies, Volume 3, MacMillan 1925
• Volcanoes, The Hague 1946
• Geological expedition of the university of Amsterdam to the Lesser Sunda islands in the south eastern part of the Netherlands East Indies 1937, 4 volumes, Amsterdam 1940–42
• with CG Egeler: The glaucophane facies metamorphism in the schistes lustrés nappe of Corsica, North Holland 1952

literature

• CG Egeler, Obituary in Geologie & Mijnbouw, Volume 52, 1973, pp. 253-256
• Willem Paul de Roever, Levensbericht van Hendrik Albertus Brouwer, Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 1973.

Individual evidence

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