Pieter Vincent von Stein ('Iwan the Terrible') Callenfels
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1929.11.19 The following were nominated as Honorary Fellows: Dr Van Stein Callenfels, Dr Lindblom, Dr Matsumota, Dr Andersen, Prof. Tallgren.
death noted in Report of the Council 1938-1939
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Pieter Vincent van Stein Callenfels ( Maastricht , September 4, 1883 - Colombo ( Sri Lanka ), April 26, 1938 ) was an archaeologist and historian who worked in Dutch India .
From 1902 to 1904 he studied Indology at Leiden University . In 1905 he went to Surabaya where he was employed by the colonial rule. However, he did not like this, and he resigned in 1906 . He swirled over Java , and went to work at a coffee company in Mojokerto in 1908 .
From 1915 until he worked at the Netherlands-based Antiquarian Service. From 1921 to 1924 he was in the Netherlands, where he further qualified in architecture and archeology. Upon returning in India, he grew into the founder of the study of Indian prehistory. He did many excavations, which was the most important of Guwa Lawa .
He received distinctions from Great Britain , Thailand , Japan , Annam , Cambodia and the Netherlands . In 1938 he died unexpectedly in Colombo , on his way to the Netherlands.
Because of his great form and his eccentric lifestyle, he had the nickname "Iwan the Terrible".
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Oct. 13 1936 gave paper on Recent discoveries of skulls and Pleistocene stone implements in Java illustrated by specimens