Rogier Verbeek

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Rogier Verbeek

Rogier Diederik Marius Verbeek (born April 7, 1845 in Doorn (Utrechtse Heuvelrug) , † April 9, 1926 in The Hague ) was a Dutch geologist and paleontologist.

Verbeek studied 1861–65 at the Royal Academy in Delft, which was converted into a polytechnic school in 1864, and 1865–66 at the Freiberg Bergakademie in Saxony. In 1866 he received his doctorate from TH Delft . He lived as the chief mining engineer of Dutch Indonesia in Buitenzorg on Java and examined the island of Krakatau before the eruption in 1883. In the following years he prepared a report on the eruption on behalf of the Dutch governor, of which he was an eyewitness. The book made him known.

In 1885 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1909 he received an honorary doctorate from the TU Delft. He was an honorary member of the Koninklijk Nederlands Geologische Mijnbouwkundig Genootschap and a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde. In 1925, Rogier Verbeek became an honorary member of the Leopoldina.

He geologically mapped Sumatra and the Moluccas and collected fossils on Java. He also did research in Borneo .

Fonts

  • Krakatau, Batavia 1886, Archives
  • Topographical en geological description van een Deel van Sumatra's Westkust, Batavia, 1883.
  • with R. Fennema: Geologische beschrijving van Java en Madoera, Amsterdam, 1896
  • De eilanden Alor en Pantar, residentie Timor en onderhoorigheden, Amsterdam, 1914
  • De volkanische erupties in Oost-Java in het laatst der 16de eeuw, Verhandelingen van het Genootschap, 1925
  • with others: The fossils of Java based on a collection of Dr. RDM Verbeek and by others, Brill 1909

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Schiffner: From the life of old Freiberg mountain students . E. Maukisch, Freiberg 1934, p. 344-346 .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Rogier Verbeek at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Verbeek, Rogier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verbeek, Rogier Diederik Marius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Doorn (Utrechtse Heuvelrug)
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1926
Place of death The hague