Background
De Booy was born as son of a Vice Admiral in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands.
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Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy
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Career
In 1916 he became an American citizen. During their archaeological fieldwork in the caves and middens they made remarkable discoveries (eg a paddle or pottery) from the Pre-Columbian culture of the Lucayan. In the following years he worked for the Heye Museum in New York City.
His fieldwork in the Caribbean and in Venezuela made him a prolific expert for the history of the Pre-Columbian Arawak culture.
In 1919 he died from influenza in his home in Yonkers, New New York Alexander Wetmore named the extinct Antillean cave rail (Nesotrochis debooyi) after de Booy.
