Leo Vroman

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leo Vroman (1983)

Leo Vroman (born April 10, 1915 in Gouda ; died February 22, 2014 in Fort Worth ) was a Dutch-American hematologist , draftsman, and writer .

Life

Leo Vroman's parents were teachers in Gouda, where he also attended school. From 1932 he studied biology in Utrecht , together with his brother Jaap (1912–1989), who studied geology there. Jaap fled to Palestine in January 1940 and worked as a geologist, in 1955 he received the Israel Prize . With his talent for drawing, Leo brought cartoons to the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant . In 1935 the first poems appeared in a student newspaper. After the German invasion of the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, Leo fled to England on May 14 on a sailing ship, leaving his fiancée Tineke Sanders behind. From England he went to South Africa and from there to the Dutch East Indies , where he completed his studies with the support of Tineke's father with a doctorate and worked as an assistant at the Geneeskundige Hogeschool Batavia . At the outbreak of the Pacific War he was drafted as a soldier and in 1942 after the Dutch defeat he was taken prisoner by Japan. When the Dutch wanted to recruit him for the colonial forces after the war , he moved on to the USA, where he received citizenship in 1951. In 1947 he was able to marry his fiancée, the anthropologist Georgine Maria Sanders (* 1921 in Batavia), in New York City ; they had two daughters.

He has worked as a research assistant at Rutgers University , Mount Sinai Hospital , a fellow at the American Museum of Natural History, and a physiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital Brooklyn. He completed his doctorate in 1958 at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht with the dissertation Surface contact and thromboplastin formation . The Vroman effect is named after his research results. His popular scientific non-fiction book Blood was published in 1968 and has been translated several times.

He wrote mainly poetry, but also novels and two plays, and occasionally wrote in English. In 1946 he published his first volume of poetry with surrealist poems. He also provided his volumes of poetry with his own drawings. He drew Cees Nooteboom , who was a friend of his, when he got married in 1957. He illustrated two children's books by Anton Koolhaas .

In 1964 he received the Dutch PC Hooft-prijs . In Gouda his old school was named after him and he was given honorary citizenship.

Works (selection)

  • Tineke . 1946
  • 126 poems . Amsterdam: Querido, 1964
  • Your blood: composition, functions, properties . From d. American. transfer by Renate Kebelmann. Munich: Goldmann, 1969
  • Poems 1946-1984 . Amsterdam: Querido, 1985

literature

Web links

Commons : Leo Vroman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LH Pelzer: Leo Vroman , 1965, pp. 9-14. Pelzer also has a bibliography of the essays on Leo Vroman up to 1965
  2. ↑ Jaap Vroman see Akiva Vroman in the English Wikipedia, in the Israeli Wikipedia also two photos
  3. ↑ a b c Cees Nooteboom : The smell of gasoline. Or how the Second World War ended for me . Translation of Helga van Beuningen . In: NZZ , May 2, 2015, p. 27 f.
  4. ↑ Leo Vroman ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Leo Vroman Foundation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vromanfoundation.com
  5. ↑ Leo Vroman: Effect of Adsorbed Proteins on the Wettability of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Solids , in: Nature . No. 196, 1962, pp. 476-477
personal data
SURNAME Vroman, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-American hematologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Gouda (Netherlands)
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2014
Place of death Fort Worth