Victor Westhoff door Willem van der Velden

Victor Westhoff (12 November 1916 in

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– 12 March 2001 in

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) was a

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at the

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. Westhoff published 700 scientific papers on

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and conservation, as well as articles on

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. In 1988 he was elected an honorary member of the

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. Between 1934 and 1942, Westhoff studied biology at

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and plant sociology with

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. In August 1945, he presented a paper, "Het biosociologisch onderzoek van natuurmonumenten" that became an influential work behind nature conservation in the Netherlands. In 1974 he was elected member of the

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