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Pieter Johannes Veth
Pieter Johannes Veth (December 2, 1814 in Dordrecht - April 14, 1895 in Arnhem) was a Dutch professor of geography and ethnology and the first Chairman of the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society. He was also the father of Daniël David Veth, a Dutch explorer and photographer. 
P.J. Veth, son of the Dordrecht ironmonger Hubert Veth and Cornelia Johanna Pickee, studied from 1832 to 1838 in Leiden. He was professor of Ethnology of the Dutch East Indies in Leiden from 1864 to 1876 and extraordinary professor
- Arnold Aletrino
- Christiaan Eijkman
- Jacobus Kapteyn
- Diederik Johannes Korteweg
- Abraham Kuyper
- Willem Johannes Leyds (1859–1940)
- Max Liebermann
- Johannes Messchaert (1857–1922)
- Rudolph Peter Johann Tutein Nolthenius (1851–1939)
- Alieda Maria Tutein Nolthenius (1855–1910)
- Rosy Wertheim
- Pieter Zeeman
Biography.
- Prof. dr. J. Huizinga, "Leven en werken van Jan Veth", Haarlem 1927.
Sources.
- "De Navorscher" 1950/1951