Background
Broek, January Otto Marius was born on December 8, 1904 in Utrecht, Netherlands. Son of January and Geertruida Elizabeth Juliana (van Zwicht) Broek.
Broek, January Otto Marius was born on December 8, 1904 in Utrecht, Netherlands. Son of January and Geertruida Elizabeth Juliana (van Zwicht) Broek.
Student of University Utrecht, 1924-1929, Doctor of Philosophy, 1932. Fellow Rockefeller Foundation, 1929-1931. Postgraduate London School Economics, 1929, University of California at Berkeley, 1930-1931.
Came to the United States, 1936, naturalized, 1942. With Netherlands Institute Housing and Town Planning, Amsterdam, 1929, Netherlands Rys., Utrecht, 1933-1936. Visiting lecturer universities Iowa, Ohio, California, 1936-1937.
Assistant, then associate professor geography University of California at Berkeley, 1937-1946.
Professor geography, director Social Geography Institute, U. Utrecht, 1946-1948. Professor of University Minnesota, 1948-1970, professor emeritus, 1970-1974, department chairman geography, 1948-1957.
Visiting professor, adviser U. Indonesia, Batavia, 1947. Fulbright visiting professor U. Malaya, Singapore, 1954-1955.
Honorary research associate U. College, London, 1961-1962.
Visiting professor University of California at Berkeley, 1970-1972, research associate, 1972-1974. Consultant geografic branch Military Intelligence Service, 1943. Special assistant to chief Far Eastern division, Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services, 1945.
Fellow American Geography Society. Member Alexander Maconochie Foundation (honorary), Association American Geographers (president 1960-1961), Royal Netherlands Geography Society (correspondent. Member), Netherlands Society Economics and Social Geography, South.E. Asia Institute, Institute Pacific Relations, El lnstituto de la Producion (U. Buenos Aires, correspondent.
Member).
Clubs: Campus.
Married Orletta Ruth Heineck, May 25, 1931. Children: Orletta Marianne (Janna) (Mistress John M. Leffingwell), Gertrude Juliana (Mistress Georgia Williams), January Maarten.