Joost van Vollenhoven
The captain Joost van Vollenhoven (1877 - 1918) is a former colonial administrator of Dutch origin , naturalized French.
Biography
Born with Rotterdam on July 21st, 1877 in a middle-class family, it spends her first years in Algérie where his/her parents settled as tradesmen. It makes studies of right, acquires French nationality on January 4th, 1899 and integrates the colonial École.He is general governor of Indo-China of January 1914 to April 7th, 1915, when Ernest Roume succeeds to him. Van Vollenhoven joined the face into 1915 at the sides of the Africans of the colonies which France mobilized to drive back the German troops, in the Régiment of colonial infantry of Morocco (RICM), renamed thereafter Régiment of infantry-tanks of marine. Named general governor of the French Western Africa, he resigns to reconsider the face, always with the RICM.
He is mortally wounded on June 20th, 1918 whereas he is with the head of his company on the commune of Parcy-and-Tigny. Brought back to the back, he dies in Montgobert. In the forest of Longpont, on the commune of Montgobert, is established the memorial built after the First World War under which is buried the captain Joost Van Vollenhoven. On the mausoleum the quotation is reproduced in the order of the RICM and its own quotation with the order of the regiment.
Works
- Test on the Algerian fellah , Paris, 1903,311 p.
- Multatuli on leave. New official documents published by Joost van Vollenhoven , Amsterdam, Maas & Van Suchtelen, 1909,89 p.
Posterity
The secondary Course of Dakar took its name in 1940 before being renamed Lycée Rolls Guèye.See too
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