Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans
1827–1906
Dutch astronomer. Studied at Leiden University. Astronomer of the obsevatory at Leiden, 1853–6; professor of astronomy at Utrecht, 1856; chief of the geographical service in the East Indian Colonies, 1857–75; professor of astronomy and director of the observatory at Utrecht, 1875–98.
Sources
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 67 (1907): 241–2
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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