Jacob Elisa Doornik
1777–1837
Dutch physician and naturalist. MD, Leiden, 1797. Physician in Amsterdam. Circa 1810, travelled to the Dutch colony of Batavia (now Jakarta), where he worked as a hospital inspector. Collected human skulls for ethnographic studies. Emigrated to the United States in the late 1820s.
Sources
Fabian 2010, pp. 41–3
NNBW
Bibliography
Fabian, Ann. 2010. The skull collectors: race, science, and America’s unburied dead. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
NNBW: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch Woordenboek. Edited by P. C. Molhuysen et al. 10 vols. Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij. 1911–37.
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