Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz [SEP] native language
Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz (Oudewater, 18 September 1871 – Klerksdorp (South Africa), 2 September 1944) was a Dutch explorer in New Guinea and diplomat in South Africa.
He was born to Theodorus Apolonius Ninus Lorentz and Marie Soet. Lorentz, son of a tobacco grower in East Java who had returned to the Netherlands, studied law and biology at Utrecht University. He married Marie Lousie Clemence barones van Zuylen van Nievelt.
Lorentz participated in three expeditions to Dutch New Guinea, the present-
crater on the Moon
- Lorentz National Park, a national park in Indonesian New Guinea, named for Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz
- Lorentz River, located in Western New Guinea, Indonesia
- Lorentz, West Virginia
Other uses.
- Lorentz Medal, a prize awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Lorentz space, in mathematics, a function space named after the American mathematician George G. Lorentz.
- Lorentz catfish, a species of fish in the family Ariidae, the