Pieter Hendrik van der Kemp (1845-1921)
Pieter Hendrik van der Kemp (Naarden, 24 May 1845 - The Hague, 24 May 1921) was a Dutch colonial civil servant and a Dutch historian, specializing in the history of the Dutch East Indies. Life Personal life He was the son of Pieter Hendrik van der Kemp and Bernadina Julie Loise Dibbets. He first married Wilhelmina Cornelia de Vogel and later Bertha Knebel. They had the following children: Bertha Julia Louise van der Kemp (1869); Wilhelmine / Wilhelmina Cornelia Louise van der Kemp (1873); Catharina Barbara van der Kemp (1877); Petronella Hendrika de Graag (1879) and Christina van Der Kemp (1880). Career He was sent out to the Dutch East Indies where he first worked in the colonial civil service as a controleur. Later he became a teacher at the Gymnasium Willem III in Batavia. Still later he became first, Secretary, and later Director, of the Department of Education, Religious Affairs, and Industry in the government of the Dutch East Indies. After 26 years in the Dutch East Indies he returned to the Netherlands. There he devoted himself to his historical studies which resulted in many publications, mostly, but not exclusively, devoted to the history of the Indies, especially the