Jean Victor de Bruijn
Jean Victor de Bruijn (25 November 1913 – 12 February 1979) was a Dutch district officer, soldier, explorer, ethnologist and writer. He spent most of his life in the Dutch East Indies, especially in Dutch New Guinea, working as a colonial administrator and an ethnologist. He gained fame for holding out with native Papuan soldiers in mountainous interior of Western New Guinea against overwhelming Japanese forces, as part of Operation Oaktree, maintaining one of the last Dutch-controlled outposts in the Dutch East Indies during World War II.
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Jean Victor de Bruijn
Jean Victor de Bruijn (25 November 1913 – 12 February 1979) was a Dutch district officer, soldier, explorer, ethnologist and writer. He spent most of his life in the Dutch East Indies, especially in Dutch New Guinea, working as a colonial administrator and an ethnologist. He gained fame for holding out with native Papuan soldiers in mountainous interior of Western New Guinea against overwhelming Japanese forces, as part of Operation Oaktree, maintaining one of the last Dutch-controlled outposts in the Dutch East Indies during World War II.
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Honorary degree, University of Leiden
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1913-11-25
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Mertojoedan, near Magelang, Java, Dutch East Indies
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De Bruijn, with Moluccan police and highland companions, on patrol east of Beoga, 1941
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1979-02-12
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Gerard Rudolf Anton de Bruijn
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Mathilda van Rossum
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Jean Victor de Bruijn
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Assistant District Officer of Saparua Island
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District Officer of Biak Island
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District Officer of New Guinea Highlands
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c. 1942–1944
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