Van Der Hoeden, Jacob

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VAN DER HOEDEN, JACOB

VAN DER HOEDEN, JACOB (1891–1968), bacteriologist. Van der Hoeden was born in Utrecht, Holland, where he received his doctorate in 1922. From 1920 to 1930 he was senior bacteriologist in the medical department of the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and from 1930 to 1949 director of the bacteriological laboratory of the Hospital of the University of Utrecht. In 1949 he was invited by the government of Israel to advise on the organization of veterinary research and decided to settle there, heading the department of epidemiology of the Biological Research Institute in Nes Ẓiyyonah until 1955. In 1956 he was appointed clinical professor of bacteriology at the Medical School of the Hebrew University and was elected a member of the committee on zoonosis of the World Health Organization. He was awarded the Israel Prize for agriculture in 1961.

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