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Guest blog Fred Dijsselbloem In the mid-19th century, two scientists publish ideas that will leave an indelible mark on the development of Natural History. In 1859 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) after many years of research and study publishes his “On the Origin of Species”. He thus contrasts himself with Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829). Lamarck suggested […]

Guest Blog by Fred Dijsselbloem  In the mid-19th century, two scientists publish ideas that will leave an indelible mark on the development of Natural History. In 1859 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) after many years of research and study publishes his “On the Origin of Species”. He thus contrasts himself with Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829). Lamarck

On April 30, 1918, Tera receives her teaching certificate. But she doesn’t look for a job as a teacher. She wants to study. And together with probably van der Sleen and Heimans, with whom she regularly spends time in the summer of 1918, she manages to convince her father. And so it proudly says in

In Haarlem Marius makes renewed acquaintance with “the girls Hoog” daughters of a vicar from Nijmegen, from the municipality where father Wouter was an elder. Marius does not finish his studies, why not is unclear. However, years later, according to Marius’ daughter, there was already talk in Leiden about Marius’ homosexual contacts and girls were

After a number of miscarriages, Wouter and Noes at last do get another child,  a daughter Tera or Teertje (little Tera) on February 6, 1899. Her full name is Woutera Sophia Suzanne, after her father and mother and after her father’s first wife, who has not been forgotten. Because Noes suffers from Indian thrush, an

For Starters This first blog is about the run-up to Tera’s life, her parents, her background. Wouter was born in Middelburg in 1851 as the seventh child of the bookseller Christiaan van Benthem Jutting. His father had inherited the bookshop from “Uncle” Salomon van Benthem, who had taken the young Christiaan under his wing. Christiaan