Dirk Albert Hooijer

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Dirk Albert Hooijer (30 May 1919 – 26 November 1993) was a Dutch paleontologist.

Hooijer was born in

University of Leiden. In 1941 he joined the staff of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, where he was especially interested in fossil rhinoceroses and hippopotami. In 1946, he became curator of the Dubois collection. In the same year he promoted under Professor Hilbrand Boschma (1893–1976) with his dissertation Prehistoric and fossil Rhinoceroses from the Malay Archipelago and India. From 1950 to 1951 he got a Rockefeller fellowship and worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. From 1970 until his retirement in 1979 he was professor at the University of California, Irvine
.

Hooijer published 267 scientific articles about vertebrate fossils from Indonesia, Africa, the

Flores Cave Rat
.

Hooijer was married and had two daughters and one son. He died in Leiden, Netherlands.

References

  • L. B. Holthuis: 1820 - 1958 Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie C.h.j.m. Fransen, C. van Achterberg, P.j. van Helsdingen (editors) Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum 1995 (PDF online) (in Dutch)

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