Julius Herman Boeke

Boeke (1924)

Julius Herman Boeke (born November 15, 1884 in Wormerveer , † January 9, 1956 in Leiden ) was a Dutch economist.

Life

Julius Herman was the son of pastor Izaäk Herman Boeke (born December 28, 1846 in Amsterdam; † July 27, 1913 ibid.) And his wife Sara Maria van Gelder (born March 1, 1847 in Amsterdam; † December 19, 1929 ibid.) ). He attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam , began studying Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam in 1903 and passed his candidate exam there in 1906. His social interest caused that he turned to the study of law in the same year and eight months later passed his legal trainee exam. From June 30, 1909, he completed a degree in political science at the University of Leiden and received his doctorate there on July 7, 1910 with the subject of Over tropical staathuishoudkunde. Het problem. (German: About tropical economics. The problem. ) to doctorate in political science. Two months later he moved to the Dutch East Indies , where he got a job as general secretary at the Ministry of Education there. In 1911 he switched to teaching civics and economics at the Willem III grammar school in Jakarta .

In 1914 he became a consultant for the people's credit system in Jakarta, in 1919 a consultant for the cooperative system and also worked from 1916 to 1929 as editor of the journal for Koloniale Studiën . After he had been Associate Professor of State Economics and Statistics at the Jakarta Law School from 1924, he became Professor of Tropical Colonial State Economics at the University of Leiden on July 19, 1929, which he did on January 15, 1930 with the introductory speech dualistic economie (German: dualistic economy ) began. During the phase of the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences on April 7, 1941 , published against the National Socialist economy and resigned his professorship on August 4, 1941. From October 10, 1941 to September 17, 1944, he was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and, after the Second World War, took over his professorship in oriental economics on August 28, 1945. In this capacity he became rector of the Alma Mater in 1951/52 , for which he gave the rector's speech Problems van het herstel van de harmonische dorpsgemeenschap in de Oosterse maatschappij (German: Problems in the production of a harmonious village community in oriental society ). He retired from his service on September 19, 1955 and died almost four months later.

family

Boeke married on August 11, 1910 in Leiden with Henriëtte Valeton (born February 19, 1888 in Amsterdam; † February 16, 1983 in The Hague), the daughter of the professor of classical languages ​​in Amsterdam Isaac Marinus Josué Valeton (born March 30, 1983) 1850 in Groningen; † March 31, 1911 in Amsterdam) and his wife Henriette Susanna Ortt (born January 26, 1857 in Kampen; † November 25, 1934 in Hoenderloo). There are four sons and one daughter from the marriage. From the children we know:

• Jan Boeke (* 1911 in Weltevreden) married A. de Haas
• Julius Enno Boeke (born June 26, 1913 in Weltevreden) married Th. Greve
• Reinout Boeke († November 10, 1960 in Oegstgeest)
• Izaak Herman Boeke (* around 1920; † August 2, 1999 in Leiden) married Frederika Louise Eleonara Huizer (* March 27, 1920 in Amsterdam; † December 7, 2014 in Zuphen)
• Erica Clara Boeke (born December 1, 1931 in Leiden; † July 13, 2003 in Amstelveen) married Hector Poventud

Works (selection)

• Tropical-colonial staathuishoudkunde. Het problem. Amsterdam 1910
• Coöperatie in Britsch-Indië. Weltevreden 1929
• Dualistic economy. Leiden 1930
• Crediet-coöperatie Boemipoetera. Batavia 1931
• Les Indes Néerlandaises et la crise. Brussels 1933
• Dorp en desa. Leiden 1934
• Indian economie. Haarlem 1940, 1947
• The structure of the Netherlands Indian economy. New York 1942, 1946. 1983
• The evolution of the Netherlands Indies economy. New York 1946
• Eastern economie. The Hague 1946, 1955
• The interests of the voiceless Far East: Introduction to oriental economics. Leiden 1948
• Ontwikkelingsgang en toekomst van bevolkings- en ondernemingslandbouw in Nederlands-Indië. Leiden 1948
• Agricultural emergence in het verre Oosten. Amsterdam 1951
• Economie van Indonesië. Haarlem, 3rd edition 1951; 4th edition 1953, 5th edition 1955
• Economics and economic policy of dual societies, as exemplified by Indonesia. Haarlem 1953
• Western influence on the growth of Eastern population. Geneva 1954

Life

• LGM Jaquet: Boeke, Julius Herman (1884-1956). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. (BWN) The Hague, 1979, Vol. 1 ( Online )
• JHA Logemann: Levens report JH Boeke. In: Jaarboek of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1956-1957. Amsterdam, pp. 244–252 ( online )

Web links

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