Kabinet Hille

Science & scholars

  • J.G. Hameter: Pieter Harting, Dordrecht ca. 1878

    J.G. Hameter: Pieter Harting, Dordrecht ca. 1878

    About this portrait

    This cdv shows more than just an unknown sitter: it is Pieter Harting (Rotterdam, 27 February 1812 – Amersfoort, 3 December 1885), professor at Utrecht University and versatile natural scientist — biologist, physician, pharmacologist, mathematician, methodologist and hydrologist. He is best known for his biological work, his improved microscope designs, and his studies of the subsurface of western and central Netherlands; he was also among the first Dutch supporters of Darwin’s theory of evolution. The card is signed by hand ‘P. Harting 1876’ — customary at the time for collectible cdvs of well-known contemporaries.

  • J. van Gorkom Jr.: Dionijs Jr Burger, Rotterdam ca. 1874

    J. van Gorkom Jr.: Dionijs Jr Burger, Rotterdam ca. 1874

    About this portrait

    Dionijs (Jr) Burger (Rotterdam, 4 February 1820 – Amersfoort, 31 October 1891) was a classicist and philosopher, translator of Spinoza’s Ethics, and from 1857 to 1886 rector of the Latin school (the gymnasium) in Amersfoort. A contemporary wrote of him: “Plato remained what occupied him most, yet he was at home in the whole history and intellectual life of antiquity, and a guide to many. He also devoted himself to modern Greek, which earned him honorary membership of the literary circle Byron in Athens.” After his retirement in 1886, he continued to live in Amersfoort as a private citizen.

  • F. Kaijser: Anthonia Jacoba Ockerscau en Dionijs Jr Burger, Utrecht/Zwolle ca. 1878

    F. Kaijser: Anthonia Jacoba Ockerscau en Dionijs Jr Burger, Utrecht/Zwolle ca. 1878

    About this portrait

    Anthonia Jacoba Ockerscau (Rotterdam, 7 May 1821 – Amersfoort, 10 September 1878) and her husband Dionijs (Jr) Burger (Rotterdam, 4 February 1820 – Amersfoort, 31 October 1891). Dionijs Jr Burger was a classicist and philosopher, translator of Spinoza’s Ethics and rector of the gymnasium in Amersfoort (see also his own portrait in this collection).

  • Atelier Fock: Christophorus Buys Ballot, atelier Fock, Utrecht ca. 1875

    Atelier Fock: Christophorus Buys Ballot, atelier Fock, Utrecht ca. 1875

    About this portrait

    Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot (Kloetinge, 10 October 1817 – Utrecht, 3 February 1890) was a professor at Utrecht University and one of the founders of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in 1854. He is best known for the law named after him, ‘Buys Ballot’s Law’, on the relationship between wind direction and air pressure.

    This carte de visite was produced by Atelier Fock in Utrecht, the studio of photographer Arnold Nelius Marinus Johannes Fock (1846–1901), who was active in Utrecht from around 1867 to 1901. An exact date of the photograph is not known; the name is handwritten on the back.