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Veth, Pieter Johannes, 1814-1895

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Personal name headingVeth, Pieter Johannes, 1814-1895
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Variant(s)Veth, Petrus Joannes, 1814-1895
Veth, P. J. (Pieter Johannes), 1814-1895
LocatedLeiden (Netherlands)
Birth date1814-12-02
Death date1895-04-14
Place of birthDordrecht (Netherlands)
Place of deathArnhem (Netherlands)
Field of activityGeography Ethnology Indonesia
Profession or occupationGeographers Ethnologists
Found inHis Petri Joannis Veth Oratio de religionis Islamiticae ejusque historiae studio a theologis Christianis minime negligendo, 1843.
LC man. auth. cd. (hdg.: Veth, Pieter Johannes, 1814-1895)
Nederlands-Indièˆ op papier, 1995: t.p. (P.J. Veth (1814-1895))
OCLC, Jan. 16, 2012 (hdgs.: Veth, P. J., Veth, P. J., Pieter Johannes, 1814-1895, Veth, P. J., 1814-1895, Veth, P. J., Veth, Petr. Joh., Veth, Petrus Joan, Veth, Petrus Joh., Veth, Petrus Johannes, Veth, Petrus Johannes, 1814-1895, Veth, Pieter J., Veth, Pieter Jahannes, 1814-1895, Veth, Pieter Jan, Veth, Pieter Johannes, Veth, Pieter Johannes, 1814-1895, Veth, Pieter Johannes, 1845-1895; usage: P.J. Veth, Pieter Joh. Veth, Pieter Johannes Veth, Petrus Joannes Veth)
Wikipedia, viewed April 3rd, 2020 (Pieter Johannes Veth (December 2, 1814 in Dordrecht - April 14, 1895 in Arnhem) was a Dutch professor of geography and ethnology and the first Chairman of the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society. He was professor of Ethnology of the Dutch East Indies in Leiden from 1864 to 1876 and extraordinary professor of history, literature, antiquities, institutions, manners and customs of the peoples the Indian archipelago and physical geography of the Indonesian archipelago at Leiden University from 1877 to 1885. Veth was editor of De Gids and editor of the Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indièˆ. He was the first chairman of the 1873 established Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (Royal Dutch Geographical Society, KNAG) and was chairman of the Vereeniging tot Nut van 't Algemeen.)
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