| LC control no. | n 86870625 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Umbgrove, Johannes Herman Frederik, 1899-1954 |
| Variant(s) | Umbgrove, J. H. F. (Johannes Herman Frederik), 1899-1954 Umbgrove, Jan, 1899-1954 |
| Associated country | Netherlands |
| Birth date | 1899-02-05 |
| Death date | 1954-06-14 |
| Place of birth | Limburg (Netherlands) |
| Place of death | Wassenaar (Netherlands) |
| Affiliation | Dutch East Indies. Dienst van den Mijnbouw Technische Hogeschool Delft |
| Profession or occupation | Earth scientists |
| Found in | LCCN 51-33512: His Symphony of the earth, 1950 (hdg.: Umbgrove, Johannes Herman Frederik, 1899-1954) LC data base, 12-11-86 (hdg.: Umbgrove, Johannes Herman Frederik, 1899-1954) De koraalriffen in de Baai van Batavia, 1928: title page (J.H.F. Umbgrove) Wikipedia, Nov. 30, 2018 (Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove (February 5, 1899 Hulsberg (Limburg) - June 14, 1954 Wassenaar), called in short Jan Umbgrove, was a Dutch geologist and Earth scientist. Umbgrove studied geology at Leiden University, he finished his studies in 1926. He then became employed as a paleontologist for the Dienst van de Mijnbouw in Nederlands Indièˆ (Geological Survey of the Dutch East Indies), where he studied Tertiary foraminifera and corals. He also studied volcanoes, tectonics, coastal morphology and the bathymetry of the seas surrounding the Sunda Islands. From 1929 he went back to Leiden to become the assistant of his former teacher B.G. Escher. In 1930 he became professor in stratigraphy and paleontology at Delft University. His research was again multidiciplinary. He studied the paleogeography of the Dutch East Indies) |
| Associated language | dut |
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