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August Muhlenfeld


August Muhlenfeld
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Born 1886
Died 1946
Residence Director of the West Indies Division, Netherlands Ministry for the Colonies
Society Membership
membership Guest Fellow
left 1946 deceased
elected_AI 1941.05.27



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1941.05.27 The following were elected as guest Members for the duration of the war: Commandant Jean Escarra, Directeur du Service des Relations Exterieures, formerly Professeur du Droit a la Faculte de Paris; Mon. C.S.A. Schaeffer of the Free French Navy formerly Curator of the Musee de St Germain-en-Laye; Mon. August Muhlenfeld Director of the West Indies Division Netherlands Colonial Office, and formerly Director of the Department of the Interior, Netherlands East Indies. It was resolved that the privileges of guest membership should be the same as those of Hon. Fellowship with the exception that they should be terminable at the end of the war
1942.01.20 The Council expressed their hearty thanks to Dr Morant who had succeeded in raising a further £16 by the sale of foreign postage stamps collected at the Institute and through him to M. August Muhlenfeld, a guest member of the Institute, who had provided many rare stamps from the Dutch East Indies. It was decided that M. Muhlenfeld should receive Man free of charge as a token of the Institute’s thanks.
death reported in Report of the Council 1945-46 - a distinguished administrator in the East and West Indies, who was for five years a high official of the Netherlands Ministry of the Colonies in London and was elected in 1941 as the first Guest Member of the Institute

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[Jan. 23 1946 New York Times]: THE HAGUE, Jan. 22 (Netherlands News Agency)--August Muhlenfeld, Director General of West Indies Affairs in the Ministry of Overseas Territories, died here on Friday, it was learned today. He was 60 years old.

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10 Dec. 1940 read his paper on The Badui: a primitive tribe of Western Java illustrated by lantern slides

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