Jacob van der Hoeden ( he, יעקב ואן דר הודן, 27 July 1891 in
Utrecht
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– 1 February 1968) was a Dutch-born
Israel
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veterinary
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research scientist.
Biography
Jacob (Jaap) Van der Hoeden was born into a
Jewish
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family in the
Netherlands
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in 1891. He completed his doctorate in 1921. Van der Hoeden, together with his four children, survived the
Holocaust
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thanks to the help of Dutch
Christians
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who hid the family in various places. However, his wife died of illness prior to the end of
World War II
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.
Veterinary career
Van der Hoeden served from 1924 to 1929 as a senior researcher at the Dutch national public health institute and a professor of veterinary medicine at
Utrecht University
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. In 1929, he was appointed to head the University's hospital laboratories and, in 1932, was elected to the Dutch Society for Natural Sciences. He became a leading authority on diseases that pass from animals to humans.
In 1948, the Minister of Agriculture in the interim government of the State of Israel invited van der Hoeden to establish the Veterinary Institute in Israel. In 1955, he moved to the
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in
Ness Ziona
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, where he worked until his retirement in 1966.
Van der Hoeden died in 1968 in Israel.
Awards and recognition
* In 1961, van der Hoeden was awarded the
Israel Prize, in
agriculture
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.
* In 1961, he was awarded the Zimmerman Prize.
See also
*
List of Israel Prize recipients
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List
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References
1891 births
1968 deaths
Dutch emigrants to Israel
Dutch Jews
20th-century Dutch biologists
Israel Prize in agriculture recipients
Israeli biologists
Scientists from Utrecht (city)
Utrecht University alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University
Veterinary scientists
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