Petrus Johannes Idenburg

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P. J. Idenburg
Idenburg in the 1930s
Born
Petrus Johannes Idenburg

(1898-01-28)28 January 1898
Hillegersberg, Netherlands
Died27 December 1989(1989-12-27) (aged 91)
The Hague, Netherlands
Academic work
DisciplineConstitutional law, African studies, university administration, international diplomacy
InstitutionsLeiden University

Petrus Johannes Idenburg (28 January 1898, Hillegersberg, Netherlands โ€“ 27 December 1989, The Hague) was a jurist specialized in constitutional law, lector at Leiden University, and researcher on Africa.[1][2][3]

He graduated in law in 1920 from the

University of Leiden
.

Idenburg was a board member of various Dutch-South African associations.

The idea of establishing a

law faculty at the University of Pretoria and later Stellenbosch University, in South Africa. Idenburg became a member of the journal's editorial board, along with professors Eduard Meijers, Julius Christiaan van Oven, LJ van Apeldoorn, J Donner, and the advocate FJ de Jong, who was the secretary of the board.[4]

Due to his refusal to cooperate with the German occupation authorities to dismiss non-Arian university teachers, he resigned as a secretary of the Curators of Leiden University in June 1942. He was restored in 1945.

In 1947, he founded the

Constitutional Law
of Africa.

He was a member of the Advisory Council for Development Cooperation for many years.

Peter Johannes was an elder brother of the statistician and director of Statistics Netherlands Prof. Dr. Philip Idenburg.

Idenburg's archives are kept by the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden,[5] while archives and photo albums from his many visits to Africa are kept by Museum Volkenkunde,[6] also in Leiden.

Selected works

  • P.J. Idenburg: 'Political structural development in tropical Africa'. In: Orbis, a quarterly journal of world affairs, 1967, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 256-270
  • P.J. Idenburg: The Cape of Good Hope at the turn of the eighteenth century. Leiden, Universitaire Pers, 1963.
  • P.J. Idenburg: Ethnic and cultural pluralism in intertropical communities. Social aspect. Bruxelles, Imprimerie PUVREZ, 1957
  • (in Dutch) Herinneringen van mr. P.J. Idenburg, [Den Haag], [1987]

Notes

  1. ^ Stephen Taylor; Marinus Spruytenburg: Who's who in the Netherlands 1962/1963 , Montreal, Intercontinental Book and Pub., 1963?
  2. ^ P.J. Idenburg: Herinneringen van Mr. P.J. Idenburg , [The Hague], [1987]
  3. ^ PJ Idenburg at hoogleraren.universiteitleiden.nl
  4. ^ Pont, P (1963). "Die eerste vyf en twintig jaar: 'n Nabetragting". Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg. 26: 4โ€“5.
  5. ^ "Archives". African Studies Centre Leiden. 2015-11-03. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  6. ^ "NMVW-collectie". collectie.wereldculturen.nl. Retrieved 2018-12-07.