Henri Willem Hoesen
Henri Willem Hoesen (born May 6, 1885 in Fort de Kock , † December 21, 1970 in Rotterdam ) was a Dutch doctor .
biography
Hoesen worked as an assistant to Professor Rudolf Hendrik Salt at the University of Amsterdam until he went to Java as a medical officer in 1912 and was there to fight the third plague epidemic . Two years later he returned to the Netherlands in 1914 and received his doctorate on June 2, 1917 with the doctoral thesis Gegevens omtrent de indicatoren der rattenpest op Java (results relating to the indicators of rat plague in Java). Half a year later, he moved with his wife again after Java, and in 1921 became director of the Geneeskundig laboratory , which later after the discoverer of the B 1 -Vitamins, Christiaan Eijkman in Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology was renamed.
In August 1924, Hoesen returned to Rotterdam to work there as a hygiene inspector . The health department was only five years old at the time and was a countermeasure to the Spanish flu . In 1929 he was involved in fighting a supposed smallpox epidemic.
Hoesen retired on November 1st, 1950.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://militieregisters.nl/zoek?l00=fort+de+koek+sumatra&p04=henri+willem&p06=hoesen
- ↑ life data from Henri Willem Hoesen on the website redeenportret.nl; accessed on November 13, 2016
literature
- HW Hoesen, Gegevens omtrent de indicators der rattepest op Java, Amsterdam 1917
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoesen, Henri Willem |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort de Kock |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1970 |
| Place of death | Rotterdam |