Willem Thomas de Vogel

Willem Thomas de Vogel (26 March 1863 – 10 March 1955) was a

doctor and official who established the Department of Public Health in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia

).

Life

Early life

Willem Thomas de Vogel was born on 26 March 1863 in Toeban (now

heart conditions.^[4]

Medical career

Leaving for the East Indies two days after graduating,

Donders Memorial Fund the next year which allowed him to study under Theodor Leber at Heidelberg and Ernst Fuchs at Vienna, Austria.^[1]

Marrying Suzanna Catherina Bierman (29 August 1877 – 25 January 1954) on 14 September 1897,

H. Thomas Karsten's eventual plan for the area omitted any space for low-income housing (kampongs) and instead filled it with spacious roads and expansive villas, creating the district that now comprises Semarang's Candisari neighborhood (Nieuw Tjandi).^[7]^[11] De Vogel was named an officer of Order of Orange–Nassau in 1906 and served as one of the Dutch East Indies' representatives to the 14th International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in Berlin the next year.^[7] Shortly thereafter, he founded the Dutch Society for Tropical Medicine (Dutch: Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Tropische Geneeskunde) with Dr. van der Scheer.^[7] Having judged traditional Indonesian medicine unhelpful during the large cholera outbreak from 1908–1909, he subsequently ignored its practice but vehemently rejected any official use as unscientific.^[12]

De Vogel was elected a coressponding member of the

keynote address to the 4th congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine in Batavia on 6 August 1921.^[14]

Retirement

De Vogel was tasked with travelling to

University of Leiden.^[16]

Works

Bijdrage Tot de Kennis der Electrische Verschijnselen van het Hart [Contribution to Knowledge of the Electrical Phenomena of the Heart], Leiden: University of Leiden, 1893. (Dutch)
De Taak van de Burgerlijke Geneeskundige Dienst in Nederlandsch Indië [The Task of the Civil Medical Service in the Dutch Indies], Amsterdam: Royal Institute for the Tropics, 1917. (Dutch)

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Snijders (1953), p. 714.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Japikse (1938), p. 1550.
^ Snellen (1995), pp. 22 & 70.
^ Snijders (1943).
^ De Knecht-van Eekelen (1989), p. 65.
^ Van Epen (1924), p. 357.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Snijders (1953), p. 715.
^ Murakami (2015), p. 32.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Japikse (1938), p. 1551.
^ Van Roosmalen (2017), p. 274.
^ Van Roosmalen (2017), p. 275.
^ Murakami (2015), p. 34.
^ "Willem Thomas de Vogel". Digital Web Centre for the History of Science in the Low Countries. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Winckel (1955), p. 899.
^ ^a ^b Snijders (1953), p. 716.
^ Dros (2020).

Bibliography

De Knecht-van Eekelen, Annemarie (1989), "The Interaction of Western and Tropical Medicine", Dutch Medicine in the Malay Archipelago, 1816–1942, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 57–71.
Dros, Erik Jan (8 January 2020), Archief Willem Thomas de Vogel, Leiden: Leiden University Libraries. (Dutch)
Japikse, Nicolaas, ed. (1938), "Vogel, Dr. Willem Thomas de", Persoonlijkheden in Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in Woord en Beeld, Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf, pp. 1550–1551.
Murakami, Saki (2015), "Call for Doctors! Uneven Medical Provision and the Modernization of State Health Care during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930s–1950s" (PDF), Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920–1960, Leiden: Brill, pp. 29–62,
doi:10.1163/9789004280724_003
.

Snellen, Hermann Adrianus (1995), Willem Einthoven (1860–1927) Father of Electrocardiography, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
ISBN 0-7923-3274-1
.

Snijders, Emilius Paulus (23 January 1943), "50 Jaren Doctor in de Geneeskunde" (PDF), Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, vol. 87, no. 4, p. 187. (Dutch)
Snijders, Emilius Paulus (10 March 1953), "Hoofdartikelen: Dr. W. Th. de Vogel 90 Jaar Terugblik op een Rijk Leven" (PDF), Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, vol. 97, no. 12, pp. 714–717. (Dutch)
Van Epen, Didericus Gijsbertus, ed. (1924), Nederlands Patriciaat, vol. 14, Den Haag: Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie en Heraldick. (Dutch)
Van Roosmalen, Pauline Katherina Maria (2017), "Modern Indisch Town Planning", The Life and Work of Thomas Karsten, Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Press, pp. 265–303.
Winckel, Charles Willem Frederik (19 March 1955), "Personalia: In Memoriam Dr. W. Th. de Vogel" (PDF), Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, vol. 99, no. 12, pp. 899–900. (Dutch)

[FOOTNOTESnijders1953714-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Snijders (1953), p. 714.

[FOOTNOTEJapikse19381550-2] Japikse (1938), p. 1550.

[FOOTNOTESnellen199522_&_70-3] Snellen (1995), pp. 22 & 70.

[FOOTNOTESnijders1943-4] Snijders (1943).

[FOOTNOTEDe_Knecht-van_Eekelen198965-5] De Knecht-van Eekelen (1989), p. 65.

[FOOTNOTEVan_Epen1924357-6] Van Epen (1924), p. 357.

[FOOTNOTESnijders1953715-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Snijders (1953), p. 715.

[FOOTNOTEMurakami201532-8] Murakami (2015), p. 32.

[FOOTNOTEJapikse19381551-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Japikse (1938), p. 1551.

[FOOTNOTEVan_Roosmalen2017274-10] Van Roosmalen (2017), p. 274.

[FOOTNOTEVan_Roosmalen2017275-11] Van Roosmalen (2017), p. 275.

[FOOTNOTEMurakami201534-12] Murakami (2015), p. 34.

[13] "Willem Thomas de Vogel". Digital Web Centre for the History of Science in the Low Countries. Retrieved 3 December 2023.

[FOOTNOTEWinckel1955899-14] Winckel (1955), p. 899.

[FOOTNOTESnijders1953716-15] Snijders (1953), p. 716.

[FOOTNOTEDros2020-16] Dros (2020).

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