Jan van der Hoeve

Jan van der Hoeve

Jan van der Hoeve (born April 13, 1878 in Santpoort , † April 26, 1952 in Leiden ) was a Dutch ophthalmologist.

Life

Jan was born to the father of the same name (born January 23, 1848 in Broek) and his wife Susanna Maria Christina Collewijn, who was married on January 31, 1872 in Schoonhoven (born September 29, 1844 in Schoonhoven; † June 5, 1894 in IJmuiden ). He had attended the high school in Haarlem in 1889 and matriculated on October 1, 1894 at the University of Leiden to study medicine. From October 1900 he worked as an assistant for ophthalmology under Willem Koster Gzn. (* October 16, 1865 in Boskoop; † April 27, 1921 in The Hague) in Leiden and passed his doctor's examination there on March 1, 1901. On June 4, 1902, he received his doctorate from the University of Bern with the subject of contributions to the teaching of squint and from 1905 worked in the Dutch military as a health officer in Utrecht . On June 18, 1913, he was appointed to the professorship of ophthalmology at the University of Groningen , which task he combined on September 20 of the same year with the introductory speech De oogheelkunde in other dele der medische wetenschap (German: The ophthalmology in connection with other parts medical science ).

On October 26, 1918, he received an appointment to the professorship for ophthalmology at the University of Leiden , which he followed and took over the task on January 22, 1919 with the inaugural speech De tegenwoordige stand der Oogheelkunde (German: The current state of ophthalmic medicine ). Hoeve had written articles in the Leerboek der praeventieve geneeskunde , in the handbook of all ophthalmology and the various ophthalmological journals in Germany, England, France, the Netherlands and America. Van der Hoeve was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in 1928 , Commander in 1931, and Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1948 , Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown , he received the Hungarian War Merit Cross , Second Class, the Mac Kenzie Medal, in 1933 the Doyne Memorial Architecture, as well as the associated medal from the University of Oxford and in the same year the Bowman Architecture of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain. He also received an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Edinburgh in 1928 and an honorary doctorate in medicine from the University of Heidelberg in 1926 . In 1923 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , for which he served as deputy chairman in 1926 and as chairman of the natural history department in 1932.

He was also a member of the Belgian Société d'Ophtalmologie, the French Société d'Ophtalmologie, the German Ophthalmological Society , the British Ophthalmological Society and other ophthalmological associations in America, Spain, Egypt, Austria and Hungary. He was also a member of the medical institutions of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten , the Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap in Groningen , honorary member of the Budapest Royal Medical Association, the Vereniging ter bestrijding van Trachoom (German: Association for the fight against trachoma ), the Académie nationale de Médecine and the Royal Society of Medicine . In the academy year 1936/37 van der Hoeve was elected rector of the Leiden Alma Mater , in which capacity he gave the rector's speech De voorkoming van blindheid (German: Preventions against blindness ) on February 8, 1937 . On January 28, 1943, he was dismissed from his professorship. After the Second World War, the Dutch higher education system was reorganized in 1946. That is why van der Hoeve was appointed professor of medicine, which he carried out until 1948. He then continued to live in Leiden, where he died as a result of a traffic accident.

Van der Hoeve married on September 28, 1905 in Scheveningen with Elisabeth Adriana Laurillard (born January 30, 1883 in Rotterdam, † January 7, 1966 in Leiden), the daughter of the tobacco retailer Isaac Laurillard (born June 25, 1850 in Hillegersberg; † April 5, 1909 in The Hague) and his wife Maria Catharina de Bruijn, who married on October 2, 1879 in Dordrecht (* around 1856; † March 12, 1921 in Schevingen). There are two daughters from the marriage. Isa van der Hoeve (born April 9, 1909 in Utrecht) and Suze Maria Cornelia van der Hoeve (born July 11, 1906 in Breda), who met Willem Frederik Noordhoek Hegt on June 11, 1929 in Leiden (* Married 28 March 1904 in Den Helder) (divorced November 19, 1936 in The Hague).

Works (selection)

• Contributions to the doctrine of squint . Wiesbaden 1902
• Bibliotheca ophthalmologica van de inrichting dead treatment en verpleging van minvermogende ooglijders te Groningen . Groningen 1911, 1919
• De oogheelkunde in connection with other deelen of the medische wetenschap . Groningen 1913
• De tegenwoordige stood the oogheelkunde . Leiden 1919
• Het Boerhaavekwartier . Leiden 1928
• Voorkoming van blindheid . Leiden 1937
• Praeventieve oogheelkunde . Groningen 1936–1938, 3rd vol.
• Lipoidoses en scleromalacia perforans . Amsterdam 1943

literature

• Prof. Dr. J. vd Hoeve bij verkeersongeval gedood. In: Leidsch Dagblad. April 28, 1952, p. 1 ( online )
• Prof. dr J. van der Hoeve overleden. In: Nieuwe Leidsche Courant. April 28, 1952, p. 4 ( online )
• Prof. Dr. J. van der Hoeve 70 years. In: Leidsch Dagblad. April 10, 1948, p. 3 ( online )
• How is dat Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1948, p. 221
• WPC Zeeman: Levens report J. van der Hoeve. In: Jaarboek of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 1952–1953. Amsterdam, pp. 291–301 ( Online PDF )

Web links

• Hoeve entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
• Hoeve in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
• Hoeve in the professorial catalog of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
• Hoeve at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)