Jac. P. Thijsse
Jacobus (Jac) Pieter Thijsse (born July 25, 1865 in Maastricht , † January 8, 1945 in Overveen near Haarlem ) is considered a pioneer of nature conservation in the Netherlands .
Life
He was a primary school teacher and in 1891 the principal of a primary school on the island of Texel . There he learned to love nature. As his wife was homesick for their hometown Amsterdam , the two returned there in 1893. He got to know Eli Heimans, who shared his love of nature.
When the city of Amsterdam wanted to fill the moor lake Naardermeer near Naarden with municipal waste in 1904 , Thijsse and Heimans decided to fight back. They founded the Association for the Protection of Natural Monuments in the Netherlands, which now still exists as a Natuurmonumenten and is the oldest nature conservation organization in the country (see the association's website).
Between 1906 and 1938 he wrote the texts of the extremely successful Verkade albums on nature issues. These were albums from the Verkade company into which you could stick the color pictures that they enclosed with their biscuits, cocoa powder and other product packages.
Because of his services to nature conservation and primary education in this field, the University of Amsterdam awarded him an honorary doctorate in biology on September 18, 1922 .
literature
- Entry in the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ natuurmonumenten.nl (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thijsse, Jac. P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thijsse, Jacobus Peter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch nature conservation pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maastricht |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1945 |
| Place of death | Overveen near Haarlem |