Hendrik Wefers Bettink

Hendrik Wefers Bettink

Hendrik Wefers Bettink (born March 17, 1839 in Utrecht ; † November 19, 1921 there ) was a Dutch pharmacologist.

Life

Hendrik was the son of the pharmacist Dirk Cornelis Wefers Bettink (born January 20, 1798 in Utrecht; † February 1, 1875 ibid) and his wife Johanna Paulina Schonenberg (born March 23, 1809 in Rotterdam; † October 18, 1896 in Utrecht). After completing the French elementary school, he began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist at the age of fourteen. After he had finished his apprenticeship training in June 1859, he continued his education and began studying chemistry at the University of Utrecht in 1865 . His formative teacher in chemistry was Eduard Mulder , at Buys Ballot he dealt with mathematics, van Rees taught him physics, Harting introduced him to zoology and he attended Miquel's lectures on botany.

Since he had to secure his livelihood, he took a position as a teacher of natural history at a private girls' school in Utrecht during his studies in 1866 and did his doctorate on January 18, 1870 with Mulder on the subject of Onderzoekingen over de oplosbaarheid van CO2 in water, en den invloed , dien sommige zouten daarop uitoefenen (German: Investigations into the solubility of carbon dioxide in water, and what influence some salts have on it ) to the Doctor of Philosophy. In 1868 he went as a teacher at the higher middle school (HBS) in Sappemeer , in 1870 became director of the day and evening school in Utrecht and from 1876 worked at the higher middle school for the training of military pharmacists for the Dutch East Indies in Utrecht. In 1877 he became the first professor of pharmacy and toxicology at the Utrecht University, which task he took on with the introductory speech Het verleden, het heden en de toekomst der pharmacie (German: The past, the present and the future of pharmacy ).

As such, he founded the Pharmaceutical Institute in Utrecht in 1883 and also took part in the university's organizational tasks as the rector of the Alma Mater in 1899/1900 . Together with Matthijs Salverda (1840–1886) he wrote a textbook Over de kennis der Natuur (German: About knowledge of nature), as well as a large number of subject-specific articles in the scientific journals of his time. Wefers Bettink became an honorary member of the Dutch Society for Pharmacy and other pharmacological associations abroad. For example, on May 25, 1901, as a corresponding member of the Académie royale de Médecine of Belgium. He was a member of the city council of Utrecht, was knight of the Order of the Dutch Lions and an officer of the Order of Oranje Nassau in 1900 . He also held an extraordinary professorship at the University of Amsterdam . On October 1, 1908, Wefers Bettink retired from his professorship.

family

Wefers Bettink was married twice. His first marriage was on July 24, 1872 in Utrecht with Rosette Christine Osti (born May 1, 1849 in Utrecht; † March 29, 1876 there), the daughter of Nicolaas Clement Osti (born May 15, 1803 in Utrecht; † January 28, 1867 in Utrecht) and his wife Margaretha Christina Klanck (born January 13, 1809 in Utrecht, † December 24, 1885 in Utrecht). His second marriage was on March 20, 1879 in Rotterdam Helena Gijsberta Koningsberger (born April 17, 1851 in Rotterdam; † November 21, 1945 in Utrecht), the daughter of Jacob Christiaan Koningsberger (born September 10, 1809 in Amsterdam; † 13 January 1890 in Rotterdam) and Wilhelmina Cathrina Hendrina Witkamp (born January 6, 1817 in Rotterdam; † December 3, 1904 in Rotterdam). There are children from both marriages. We know of these:

• Nicolaas Clement I Wefers Bettink (* April 1873 in Utrecht; † June 5, 1873 ibid)
• Nicolaas Clement II Wefers Bettink (born April 12, 1874 in Utrecht, † June 20, 1936 in Haarlem) married. May 5, 1904 in Rheden with Hendrina Maria Brouwer (born September 4, 1876 in Rheden)
• Rosette Christine Johanna Paulina Wefers Bettink (born March 2, 1876 in Utrecht, † July 12, 1936 in Rotterdam) married. March 29, 1906 in Utrecht with Jan Adriaan Levin Röder (born March 29, 1880 in Rotterdam; † December 8, 1951 in Rotterdam)
• Jacob Christian Wefers Bettink (born August 18, 1880 in Utrecht; † June 24, 1960 in Arnhem), married. September 19, 1922 with Laure Rezina Maximilienne Heinze (born January 25, 1902 in Amsterdam)
• Willem Cornelis Hendrik Wefers Bettink (born March 16, 1892 in Utrecht, † December 22, 1965 in Enschede) married. February 24, 1919 in Denekamp with Engelina Johanna Wilhelmina Hondelink (born April 29, 1898 in Denekamp; † July 14, 1944 in Enschede)
• Johan Paul Wefers Bettink (born April 23, 1884 in Utrecht; † February 25, 1962 there) became a doctor, married. I. married on September 18, 1913 in Amsterdam to Elisabeth Schrikker (born March 4, 1891 in Amsterdam; † March 23, 1967 in Utrecht). II. In April 1937 in The Hague with Hendrina Maria van Rossem (born July 16, 1895 in Oosterbeek; † October 18, 1954 in Utrecht)

literature

• Burkhard Reber: Gallery of outstanding therapists and pharmacognostics of the present. Paul du Bois, Geneva, 1897, p. 287 ff.
• Onze Hoogleeraren. Portretten en Biografieën. Nigh & van Ditmar, Rotterdam, 1898, p. 225
• How is that? 1902. Vivat, Amsterdam, 1902, p. 491
• Didericus Gijsbertus van Epen: Nederland's patriciaat. Centraal bureau voor genealogie en heraldick., 1966, vol. 52, p. 34 ff.

Web links

• Wefers Bettink in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Wefers Bettink entry at the Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique