Hooven, JAN VAN DER

Hooven, JAN VAN DER, Dutch naturalist, was born on 9th February 1801, at Rotterdam. After studying medicine at Leyden, and zoology at Paris, he established himself as a physician in his native town; and in 1835 he was elected to the professorship of Zoology at Leyden. He died on 10th March 1868. His most important work is Handboek der Dierkunde (1827–33), of which a second edition, entirely recast, appeared in 1846, and an English translation by Clark, with important additions by the author and the editor, in 1856–58. Most of his other works are memoirs.—His brother, CORNELIS PRUYS VAN DER HOEVEN (1792–1871), was professor of Medicine in the university of Leyden (1824–71), and the author of De Historia Medicinæ (1842), De Historia Morborum (1846), and other important works on pathology and the history of medicine.