Louis van Vuuren

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Louis van Vuuren (born July 23, 1873 in Banjarmasin , † July 12, 1951 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch economic and social geographer.

Life

Louis van Vuuren as a young lieutenant 1900

The son of an officer in the Royal Dutch-Indian Army settled in the Netherlands shortly after he was born. Here he had received his basic training, then passed the Abitur in Helmond and completed a period of military service for the Royal Dutch-Indian Army in Kampen . In 1898 he came to the Dutch East Indies as a lieutenant, where he served under Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz (1851-1924). In addition to his military knowledge, he also got to know the connections between socio-economic issues. From 1905 he was able to use this experience in a military mission on Lake Toba in Sumatra.

In 1908 he began studying at the Dutch-Indian Administration College in The Hague, where he published his treatise " Eerste maatregelen in pas geannexeerd gebied " (First measures in an annexed area) in 1910 after completing his studies . In it, he describes his experiences and views of the measures to be taken in an occupied area towards the population in order to achieve prosperity for the same. In the same year he returned to the Dutch East Indies, where he became director of the Encyclopedia Office, whose job it was to collect and process data from the colonial area and, after evaluation, make it available to local officials. In addition, the office worked on the elaboration of the country description of various areas of East India.

Based on the experience he had gained, he published the publication " Het Gouvernement Celebes " (The Celebes Government) in 1920 in three parts. After the office had done its job, it was shut down. Van Vuuren returns to the Netherlands, where he became a lecturer in colonial land descriptions at the University of Amsterdam . After Willem Boerman (1888-1965) had lost his professorship after 18 months at the University of Utrecht, van Vuuren was due to his practical experience on December 4, 1926 as a professor of social and economic geography, colonial geography and land description to the University of Utrecht appointed. He took up this office on February 21, 1927 with the speech " Het wereld-rythme in Oost-Azië en het aangrijpingspunt van het communisme in West Java " (The world rhythm in East Asia and the point of attack of the communists in West Java).

Since then he has been studying the relationships of people in an area in order to achieve wealth. This gave birth to his ideas of an ethical policy in which the government of a country had the task of supporting the pursuit of prosperity. According to his theoretical thinking, it has to promote social justice with its social and economic policy. In this way, van Vuren created the basis for a socio-economic and spatial scientific analysis. Such socio-economic studies were also carried out by him in the Netherlands during the years of economic crisis in the Netherlands from 1935 to 1942. From 1941 he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater until the end of the war. When he submitted to the German occupiers in a declaration of loyalty in 1943, he was only disregarded and isolated by his Dutch colleagues. After the Second World War he was forced to resign from his posts. His former students still visited him and had a positive assessment of him in the following years. He was also a member of the Association for Geography and Statistics in Frankfurt am Main, a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and a corresponding member of the Society for Geography in Berlin .

Works

  • First rules of law in pas geannexeerd area. Met Beschrijving der Pak Pak landen (Daïrilanden) en schetskaart 1: 250 000. 1910
  • Celebes in vijftig jaren. 1919
  • The stand of the natuurwetenschappelijk factory in Ned. In the. 1919
  • Barrier reefs and atolls in the Ned. Indian archipelago. 1919
  • Het Governorate of Celebes. 1920
  • Voordracht over het natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek in Ned.-Indië in association with de nijverheid en den landbouw. 1921
  • Geography: Development of the geographical knowledge of the Malay Archipelago. 1923
  • Jaarboek van Batavia en omstreken. 1927
  • Parallels in de ontwikkeling van Batavia en Amsterdam. 1927
  • The waterways that connect Rotterdam and Antwerp with the Dutch-Belgian industrial area. 1928
  • On the anthropogeography of Australasia. Berlin 1929
  • Western influence on indigenous culture in the Malay archipelago. Berlin 1930
  • Wat men van den Dom van Utrecht can work. 1930
  • Our people's power in the land in het bijzonder ten aanzien van Zuid-Beveland. 1930
  • Het oude schip van Utrecht. 1931
  • De ontwikkeling van Utrecht en omgeving. 1931
  • Dr. HJ Lulofs, 8 Maart 1871 - 8 Maart 1931. 1931
  • Bij de hoogtekaart van de stad Utrecht. 1932
  • De sociale beteekenis van den landbouw. Voordracht the locationheid van de algemene vergadering van de Maatschappij dead bevordering van landbouw en veeteelt in Zeeland. 1933
  • De geschiktheid van den sociaal-geograaf voor beroepen in het practical leven. 1935
  • De zgn. afgodsbeelden Fosta en Weda uit de Mariakerk te Utrecht, Atlantis, de voorvaderen van de Germanen, en het Oera Lindabok. 1935
  • Report on the Maasgemeenten, sent to the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken te 's Hertogenbosch. 1936
  • De aardrijkskunde in de faculteit van letteren en wijsbegeerte. 1939
  • Het onderzoek naar en de bevordering van de welvaart eener stad. 1940
  • Geographical uitkomsten van de laatste Nieuw-Guinea-expeditie. 1940
  • Nederlandsch Indië as a producent van grondstoffen voor de wereldbehoeften. 1941
  • Why social geography? 1941
  • De inland migration in the Netherlands. 1942
  • De Beteekenis van straat Malakka gezien vanuit den gezichtshoek van den sociaal geograaf, speech uitgesproken bij de 306de herdenking van de "dies natalis" of the Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht op 26 maart 1942 ... by L. Van Vuuren. 1942
  • De functie van het deltagebied van Rijn, Maas en Schelde within het bestek der Nederl. kers- en trade economy. 1942
  • A voortgezet debate on human wording. 1943

literature

  • Hans Knippenberg, Marijke van Schendelen: Everything heeft zijn plaats. 125 years of geography and planology aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1877–2002. Uitgeverij Aksant, Amsterdam 2002, ISBN 90-5260-072-4 , p. 194.
  • Hajo Brugmans, Jan Hendrik Scholte, Philip Kleintjes: Gedenkboek van het Athenaeum en de Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1632–1932. Stadsdrukkerij, Amsterdam 1932, p. 705.
  • Anthony Winkler Prins , Hendrik Richard Hoetink: Algemene Winkler Prins Encyclopedie. Volume 1: A - Bena. Elsevier, Amsterdam et al. 1956, p. 79.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Jan Knegtmans: Een kwetsbaar centrum van de geest: de Universiteit van Amsterdam tussen 1935 en 1950. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 1998, ISBN 9053563385 , p. 125, ( online reading sample ), which he not only confirmed until 1943 as rector the Het Utrechts Archief ( Link 1 , Link 2 ) and Petrus Kornelis Peerlkamp Proefschrift Bodemmeteorologische onderzoekingen te Wageningen. 1944
personal data
SURNAME Vuuren, Louis van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch economic and social geographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Banjarmasin
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1951
Place of death Utrecht