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Loogen, Jan Gerrit Tobias

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda)

Born: 1907, Soerabaja, Java. Died: June 24, 1944, drowned during a transport of P.O.W.’s to Japan.

career:

Was educated at the Agricultural School at Deventer, Holland; planter on Bah Kapoel Estate, Pematang Siantar (Sum. East Coast), 1929-32; manager ofa dairy farm at Semarang, Centr. Java, 1932-35; in the latter period passing the final examination of the secondary school as outside-candidate, with the intention to go in for botany in Holland; during the slump he thought better of it and became a planter in the employ of the Internatio, successively stationed on Sringin Estate (Bodja) (some months), and Selokaton, 1936-41, both in Centr. Java; from mid-1941 till the outbreak of the war on Molio Ardjo near Dampit (Malang, E. Java).

Collecting localities:

Centr. Java: neighbourhood of Semarang (1932); Diëng Plateau, G. Prahoe (1936-38); Selokaton Estate (1937-38); W. Java: G. Papandajan, Tegal Aloen Aloen (Sept. 1938); E. Java: G. Jang (Aug. 1939; ? collected);¹ Centr. Java: G. Soembing (March 23, Nov. 1940; Oct. 1941); E. Java: S. slope G. Smeroe (Aug. or Sept. 1941).

collections:

In Herb. Bog. [BO].

When the draughtsmen of the Buitenzorg Herbarium were working on the ‘Japan mountain plants in colours’ (unpublished), he many times sent valuable living material, not available in West Java.

literature:

(1) J.G.T. Loogen: ‘Herinneringen aan het Jang Hoogland’ (Trop. Nat. 29, 1940, p. 151-155, 6 fig.). Also author of: ‘Disperis javanica J.J.S.’ (Trop. Nat. 27, 1938, p. 113-115, 2 fig.); ‘Oekologie van eenige graswildernissen op den N. Diëng’ (l.c. 30, 1941, p. 65-70, 4 fig.); ‘Primula imperialis op den Soembing’ (l.c. 30, 1941, p. 81-85, 4 fig.).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Loogen, Jan Gerrit Tobias
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda)
	Born: 1907, Soerabaja, Java. Died: June 24, 1944, drowned during a transport of P.O.W.’s to Japan.
	career: Was educated at the Agricultural School at Deventer, Holland; planter on Bah Kapoel Estate, Pematang Siantar (Sum. East Coast), 1929-32; manager ofa dairy farm at Semarang, Centr. Java, 1932-35; in the latter period passing the final examination of the secondary school as outside-candidate, with the intention to go in for botany in Holland; during the slump he thought better of it and became a planter in the employ of the Internatio, successively stationed on Sringin Estate (Bodja) (some months), and Selokaton, 1936-41, both in Centr. Java; from mid-1941 till the outbreak of the war on Molio Ardjo near Dampit (Malang, E. Java).
	Collecting localities: Centr. Java: neighbourhood of Semarang (1932); Diëng Plateau, G. Prahoe (1936-38); Selokaton Estate (1937-38); W. Java: G. Papandajan, Tegal Aloen Aloen (Sept. 1938); E. Java: G. Jang (Aug. 1939; ? collected);¹ Centr. Java: G. Soembing (March 23, Nov. 1940; Oct. 1941); E. Java: S. slope G. Smeroe (Aug. or Sept. 1941).
	collections: In Herb. Bog. [BO]. When the draughtsmen of the Buitenzorg Herbarium were working on the ‘Japan mountain plants in colours’ (unpublished), he many times sent valuable living material, not available in West Java.
	literature: (1) J.G.T. Loogen: ‘Herinneringen aan het Jang Hoogland’ (Trop. Nat. 29, 1940, p. 151-155, 6 fig.). Also author of: ‘Disperis javanica J.J.S.’ (Trop. Nat. 27, 1938, p. 113-115, 2 fig.); ‘Oekologie van eenige graswildernissen op den N. Diëng’ (l.c. 30, 1941, p. 65-70, 4 fig.); ‘Primula imperialis op den Soembing’ (l.c. 30, 1941, p. 81-85, 4 fig.).