Claudius de Goeje, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claudius de Goeje

Dutch anthropologist

Date of Birth: 04-May-1879

Place of Birth: Leiden, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 08-Jun-1955

Profession: university teacher, cartographer, anthropologist, surinamist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Claudius Henricus de Goeje (4 May 1879 – 8 June 1955) was a Dutch Navy officer and cartographer, who took a special interest in the Wayana and Tiriyó peoples he encountered on his expeditions to the interior of Suriname.
For his lifelong interest in the Amerindian peoples of the Surinamese interior, he was awarded an endowed professorship in the Linguistics and Anthropology of Suriname and Curaçao at Leiden University in 1946.
De Goeje retired in 1951 and died four years later, in 1955.The De Goeje Mountains in Suriname are named after Claudius de Goeje.