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Jan Gerard Sleeswijk

Jan Gerard Sleeswijk was a professor at the Technical High School in Delft. Anne Frank wrote about one of his articles in her diary.

Person

  • Jan Gerard Sleeswijk
  • Born on: Oct. 7, 1879
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland

Jan Gerard Sleeswijk (1879-1969) was a professor of 'technical hygiene' at the Technical College in Delft from 6 December 1910.[1] On 7 June 1944, an article by Sleeswijk about the danger of bacterial contamination resulting from kissing appeared in De Telegraaf. This article was ridiculed the next day in the same newspaper by Clinge Doorenbos. Anne Frank referred to this article in her diary.[2]

After the Second World War, Sleeswijk pointed out the importance of annexing German territories for the health of the Netherlands, because of the healing springs there.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Nancy Stieber, Housing design and society in Amsterdam. Reconfiguring urban order and identity, 1900 – 1920, Chicago, IL [etc.]: University of Chicago Press 1998, p. 301 (noot 19).
  2. ^ Anne refers to Sleeswijk as Prof. Dr Sleeswijk. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 9 June 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Archief, Inventaris annexatie, onder a4.