Hoek was a nineteenth-century Dutch author whose monograph Herstel (“Restoration”) — cited by Van der Kemp as Hoek’s „Herstel” — was one of the standard printed sources for the diplomatic acts marking the restoration of the Netherlands East Indies to Dutch sovereignty after the British interregnum. As the title implies, the work concentrates on the years around 1816–1817, when the colonial administration was being handed back by Britain in execution of the Convention of London of 1814.
Cited by Van der Kemp
Van der Kemp invokes Hoek in a footnote on page 37 of his article on Raffles’s Acheh agreement of 1819. The note concerns the convention of 24 January 1817, an Anglo-Dutch instrument that sought to settle the practical questions arising from the restoration. Van der Kemp writes that the text of the convention “is to be found on page 170 of Hoek’s Herstel and on page 334 of Levyssohn Norman’s Britsche Heerschappij”, placing the two works side by side as the printed authorities for the document.
The same footnote refers the reader to Van der Kemp’s own earlier treatise on the 1814 treaty (Bijdragen, vol. XLVII, 1897, p. 278), so that Hoek’s Herstel forms part of the documentary apparatus on which the article’s reconstruction of the 1817 settlement rests.
Significance
Hoek’s role in the present article is that of a documentary source. The convention of 24 January 1817 was the immediate diplomatic background to Raffles’s mission to Acheh in 1819, for it was this convention that the British subsequently invoked when contesting the scope of Dutch rights on Sumatra. By citing Hoek alongside Levyssohn Norman, Van der Kemp points his readers to the two Dutch compilations in which the relevant treaty texts were available in print. Hoek belongs, with Levyssohn Norman, Netscher, Jeekel and De Sturler, to the network of late-nineteenth-century Dutch colonial historians whose editorial labours made possible Van der Kemp’s own archival researches.
See Also
- Levyssohn Norman
- Convention of 24 January 1817
- Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London (1814)
- P. H. van der Kemp
Source
Raffles’ Atjeh-overeenkomst van 1819, by P. H. van der Kemp, in Bijdragen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 6e Volgr., Deel VII (1900), pp. 159-239. Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit, LS.08781.
Hoek was a nineteenth-century Dutch author whose monograph Herstel (“Restoration”) — cited by Van der Kemp as Hoek’s „Herstel” — was one of the standard printed sources for the diplomatic acts marking the restoration of the Netherlands East Indies to Dutch sovereignty after the British interregnum. As the title implies, the work concentrates on the years around 1816–1817, when the colonial administration was being handed back by Britain in execution of the Convention of London of 1814.
Cited by Van der Kemp
Van der Kemp invokes Hoek in a footnote on page 37 of his article on Raffles’s Acheh agreement of 1819. The note concerns the convention of 24 January 1817, an Anglo-Dutch instrument that sought to settle the practical questions arising from the restoration. Van der Kemp writes that the text of the convention “is to be found on page 170 of Hoek’s Herstel and on page 334 of Levyssohn Norman’s Britsche Heerschappij”, placing the two works side by side as the printed authorities for the document.
The same footnote refers the reader to Van der Kemp’s own earlier treatise on the 1814 treaty (Bijdragen, vol. XLVII, 1897, p. 278), so that Hoek’s Herstel forms part of the documentary apparatus on which the article’s reconstruction of the 1817 settlement rests.
Significance
Hoek’s role in the present article is that of a documentary source. The convention of 24 January 1817 was the immediate diplomatic background to Raffles’s mission to Acheh in 1819, for it was this convention that the British subsequently invoked when contesting the scope of Dutch rights on Sumatra. By citing Hoek alongside Levyssohn Norman, Van der Kemp points his readers to the two Dutch compilations in which the relevant treaty texts were available in print. Hoek belongs, with Levyssohn Norman, Netscher, Jeekel and De Sturler, to the network of late-nineteenth-century Dutch colonial historians whose editorial labours made possible Van der Kemp’s own archival researches.
See Also
- Levyssohn Norman
- Convention of 24 January 1817
- Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London (1814)
- P. H. van der Kemp
Source
Raffles’ Atjeh-overeenkomst van 1819, by P. H. van der Kemp, in Bijdragen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 6e Volgr., Deel VII (1900), pp. 159-239. Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit, LS.08781.