L. J. P. J. Jeekel (rendered by Van der Kemp at one point as “Jeekers”, evidently an OCR or compositor’s slip) was a late-nineteenth-century Dutch scholar whose Leiden doctoral dissertation, Het Sumatra-tractaat (“The Sumatra Treaty”), was published in 1881. The treatise remained, at the time Van der Kemp was writing in 1900, the standard monograph on the Sumatra Treaty — the agreement by which Britain released the Netherlands from the restraints imposed by Article 2 of the 1824 treaty and recognised the Dutch right to extend their power over the whole of Sumatra, including Acheh.
The dissertation
Jeekel’s Het Sumatra-tractaat is cited in a footnote on page 56 of Van der Kemp’s article, in connection with the publication of the treaty texts in the Dutch and Indies Staatsbladen of 1872 (Ned. Stbl. 1872 No. 18; Ind. Stbl. 1872 No. 94). Van der Kemp notes that the texts of the 1871 Sumatra Treaty and its associated instruments are to be found, inter alia, in Jeekel’s proefschrift. The cross-reference forms part of the documentary scaffolding of Van der Kemp’s discussion of how the Acheh agreement of 1819 and Article 2 of the 1824 treaty between them structured Dutch and British relations with Acheh for the half-century from 1824 until 1871.
Significance for Acheh studies
Van der Kemp’s article treats the Sumatra Treaty as the diplomatic act that “released the Netherlands from England’s tutelage” over Acheh, and he marshals Jeekel’s dissertation as the principal Dutch monograph on the subject. The treaty is the indispensable hinge of any account of how the Acheh question developed from the dead-letter Acheh agreement of 1819 through the long British veto on Dutch expansion to the Aceh War that opened in 1873. Jeekel’s importance in the present article is therefore that of a source-citer who supplies the legal-diplomatic documentation of that hinge.
By 1900 the Sumatra Treaty and its consequences had become a live political question in the Netherlands — E. de Waal had devoted a volume of Onze Indische Financiën to it, and the question of British opposition to Dutch expansion on Sumatra was being openly discussed. Jeekel’s dissertation of 1881 thus belongs to the same late-nineteenth-century scholarly enterprise as the works of Levyssohn Norman, Hoek, Netscher, De Sturler and Van Hogendorp — the editorial labours on which Van der Kemp built.
See Also
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.
L. J. P. J. Jeekel (rendered by Van der Kemp at one point as “Jeekers”, evidently an OCR or compositor’s slip) was a late-nineteenth-century Dutch scholar whose Leiden doctoral dissertation, Het Sumatra-tractaat (“The Sumatra Treaty”), was published in 1881. The treatise remained, at the time Van der Kemp was writing in 1900, the standard monograph on the Sumatra Treaty — the agreement by which Britain released the Netherlands from the restraints imposed by Article 2 of the 1824 treaty and recognised the Dutch right to extend their power over the whole of Sumatra, including Acheh.
The dissertation
Jeekel’s Het Sumatra-tractaat is cited in a footnote on page 56 of Van der Kemp’s article, in connection with the publication of the treaty texts in the Dutch and Indies Staatsbladen of 1872 (Ned. Stbl. 1872 No. 18; Ind. Stbl. 1872 No. 94). Van der Kemp notes that the texts of the 1871 Sumatra Treaty and its associated instruments are to be found, inter alia, in Jeekel’s proefschrift. The cross-reference forms part of the documentary scaffolding of Van der Kemp’s discussion of how the Acheh agreement of 1819 and Article 2 of the 1824 treaty between them structured Dutch and British relations with Acheh for the half-century from 1824 until 1871.
Significance for Acheh studies
Van der Kemp’s article treats the Sumatra Treaty as the diplomatic act that “released the Netherlands from England’s tutelage” over Acheh, and he marshals Jeekel’s dissertation as the principal Dutch monograph on the subject. The treaty is the indispensable hinge of any account of how the Acheh question developed from the dead-letter Acheh agreement of 1819 through the long British veto on Dutch expansion to the Aceh War that opened in 1873. Jeekel’s importance in the present article is therefore that of a source-citer who supplies the legal-diplomatic documentation of that hinge.
By 1900 the Sumatra Treaty and its consequences had become a live political question in the Netherlands — E. de Waal had devoted a volume of Onze Indische Financiën to it, and the question of British opposition to Dutch expansion on Sumatra was being openly discussed. Jeekel’s dissertation of 1881 thus belongs to the same late-nineteenth-century scholarly enterprise as the works of Levyssohn Norman, Hoek, Netscher, De Sturler and Van Hogendorp — the editorial labours on which Van der Kemp built.
See Also
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.