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Cornelis Leendert van der Burg

1840–1905

Dutch physician. Educated at the military medical hospital, Utrecht, and in Heidelberg; doctor of medicine, 1861. Teacher in the Indonesian medical schoool, Batavia (now Jakarta), Dutch East Indies, 1862–8. Resigned from military service, but remained in Batavia as an ordinary doctor, 1868–86. Director of the medical bathing establishment in Laag-Soren, Netherlands, 1888–1902; consulting physician in Utrecht from 1902. Editor of Janus, 1904. Wrote on tropical diseases.

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NNBW

Bibliography

NNBW: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch Woordenboek. Edited by P. C. Molhuysen et al. 10 vols. Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij. 1911–37.

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