Figures, places, and events in Acehnese and Dutch colonial history associated with the year 1852.
People
Account from Snijders (1944) — 1852
1852 was the birth year of Cornelis Jacobus Snijders — born on 29 September 29 September 1852 in Nieuwe Tonge on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee — who, as a young Tweede Luitenant of the Genie (Engineers), would serve in Atjeh during the early phase of the Atjeh-oorlog in 1874–1875 and, four decades later, rise to become Chef van de Generale Staf (1910–1918) and Opperbevelhebber van Land- en Zeemacht (August 1914–November 1918) during the First World War.
Snijders was the fifth of eight sons of Cornelis Jacobus Snijders Sr., a physician who had served as a naval surgeon before establishing a practice in Zeeland, and Sara Maria Muller. The family was intellectually oriented; the elder brother W. G. F. Snijders would later become Luitenant-Generaal and Inspector of Infantry, providing the model that the younger Snijders would follow into the KMA at Breda in September 1869. The birth year 1852 thus opens, in the biographer’s framing, an arc that would carry a child of the Zeeland medical bourgeoisie from the island of Goeree-Overflakkee to the command of the entire Dutch armed forces during the European war of 1914–1918.
See Also
- Cornelis Jacobus Snijders
- Koninklijke Militaire Academie
- Korps Ingenieurs, Mineurs en Sappeurs
- Aceh War
- 1874
- 1875
- 1914
- 1918
- 1939
Source
Cornelis Jacobus Snijders (1852–1939): Een leven in dienst van zijn Land en zijn Volk, by D. van den Berg (Voorburg: September 1944), pp. 10–35. Koninklijke Bibliotheek shelfmark 0301 4872.
Figures, places, and events in Acehnese and Dutch colonial history associated with the year 1852.
People
Account from Snijders (1944) — 1852
1852 was the birth year of Cornelis Jacobus Snijders — born on 29 September 29 September 1852 in Nieuwe Tonge on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee — who, as a young Tweede Luitenant of the Genie (Engineers), would serve in Atjeh during the early phase of the Atjeh-oorlog in 1874–1875 and, four decades later, rise to become Chef van de Generale Staf (1910–1918) and Opperbevelhebber van Land- en Zeemacht (August 1914–November 1918) during the First World War.
Snijders was the fifth of eight sons of Cornelis Jacobus Snijders Sr., a physician who had served as a naval surgeon before establishing a practice in Zeeland, and Sara Maria Muller. The family was intellectually oriented; the elder brother W. G. F. Snijders would later become Luitenant-Generaal and Inspector of Infantry, providing the model that the younger Snijders would follow into the KMA at Breda in September 1869. The birth year 1852 thus opens, in the biographer’s framing, an arc that would carry a child of the Zeeland medical bourgeoisie from the island of Goeree-Overflakkee to the command of the entire Dutch armed forces during the European war of 1914–1918.
See Also
- Cornelis Jacobus Snijders
- Koninklijke Militaire Academie
- Korps Ingenieurs, Mineurs en Sappeurs
- Aceh War
- 1874
- 1875
- 1914
- 1918
- 1939
Source
Cornelis Jacobus Snijders (1852–1939): Een leven in dienst van zijn Land en zijn Volk, by D. van den Berg (Voorburg: September 1944), pp. 10–35. Koninklijke Bibliotheek shelfmark 0301 4872.