Background
He was born in 1903, in the Netherlands.
He was born in 1903, in the Netherlands.
Education background: Doctor degree in Geology from Leiden University, completed in 1929. Thesis was on the geology of the Bergamasker Alps, Northern Italy.
Career:
1929 - Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij, work in North and South Sumatra, Irian and Kalimantan, also China and Japan. 1948 - Lecturer in Geology, University of Indonesia
1950 - Full professorship in the Department of Geology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia
1958 - Chairman of the Geological Department, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 1962 - Chairman of the Department of Geology, University of Malaya
He died on May 19, 1963, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
His ashes were thrown in Mountain.
Tangkuban Perahu, West Java, Indonesia.