Andries Hoogerwerf was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 athlete, naturalist

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, ornithologist

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 and conservationist who spent much of his working life in the Dutch East Indies

Dutch East Indies

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 and Dutch New Guinea.

Hoogerwerf's athletics career lasted from the early 1920s until 1930, during which period he competed in middle-distance

Middle distance track event

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 running

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 events. In 1923 Hoogerwerf established his first Dutch national record, completing the 800 metres

800 metres

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 in 1:56.6. In the 1000 metres event he improved the Dutch record even three times, starting with 2:40.2 in 1929 and ending in 2:35.2 in 1930. In 1930 he finally also improved the Dutch 1500 metres

1500 metres

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 record from 4:10.6 into 4:08.6.

Hoogerwerf competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics

1928 Summer Olympics

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 in Amsterdam

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 as a member of the Dutch 4 x 400 metres relay

4 x 400 metres relay

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 team. The team was eliminated in the qualifications.

In 1927, 1929 and 1930 Andries Hoogerwerf was Dutch 800 metres champion. Besides he was also a member of the 4 x 400 metres relay team of his club HAV that captured the Dutch title in 1926, 1927 en 1929.

In 1931 Hoogerwerf moved to Java

Java

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 in the Dutch East Indies

Dutch East Indies

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 (now Indonesia) where he worked at the Bogor Botanical Gardens

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. He was appointed the nature protection officer of the colony’s nature reserves in 1935, and is especially associated with Ujung Kulon National Park

Ujung Kulon National Park

Ujung Kulon National Park is located at the western-most tip of Java, Banten, Indonesia. It includes the volcanic island group of Krakatoa and other islands including Panaitan, Handeuleum and Peucang on the Sunda Strait.-Geography:...

, Indonesia’s first, and the conservation of the Javan Rhinoceros

Javan Rhinoceros

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.

Hoogerwerf returned to the Netherlands in 1957, although continuing to visit Indonesia

Indonesia

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. He was also stationed from October 1962 to April 1963 at the Agricultural Experimental Station at Manokwari

Manokwari

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 in Dutch New Guinea, serving as its Scientific Officer. He eventually settled at the town of Castricum

Castricum

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 in the Netherlands where he died of cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest

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 in 1977. He is commemorated in the names of Hoogerwerf's Rat

Hoogerwerf's Rat

Hoogerwerf's Rat is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is named after zoologist Andries Hoogerwerf and is found only in Indonesia.-References:* Baillie, J. 1996. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....

 (Rattus hoogerwerfi) and the Hoogerwerf's Pheasant (Lophura hoogerwerfi).

Publications

As well as numerous reports and some 250 scientific papers, books authored by Hoogerwerf include:

• 1938 – De avifauna van Batavia en omstreken. Leiden.
• 1949 – Bijdrage tot de oölogie van Java. Netherlands.
• 1949 – De avifauna van de Plantentuin te Buitenzorg (Java). Buitenzorg.
• 1949 – De Avifauna van Tjibodas en omgeving. Buitenzorg.
• 1953 – An Ornithological bibliography having particular reference to the study of the Birds of Java. Jakarta.
• 1967 – A further contribution to our oological knowledge of the Island of Java (Indonesia). Leiden. (with W.Ph.J. Hellebrekers).
• 1970 – Udjung Kulon: The Land of the Last Javan Rhinoceros. Brill: Leiden.

• selection of scientific papers written by A. Hoogerwerf and published in Leiden http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=boolean&c=naturalis&q1=Hoogerwerf&rgn1=author+or+editor&op2=And&q2=&rgn2=entire+record&op3=And&q3=&rgn3=entire+record&op4=and&rgn4=journal&q4=+&op5=and&rgn5=doctype&q5=+&op6=and&rgn6=files&date1=1910&date2=2009