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About Hubertus van Mook
Hubertus Johannes "Huib" van Mook was a Dutch administrator in the East Indies. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he served as the lieutenant governor-general of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948. Van Mook also had a son named Cornelius van Mook who studied marine engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also wrote about Java - and his work on Kota Gede is a good example of a colonial bureaucrat capable of examining and writing about local folklore.
Everything about Hubertus van Mook →- Occupation
- university teacher, politician, writer
- Position held
- Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, member of the Volksraad, Government counsellor of the Volksraad
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Born
- May 30, 1894
- Died
- May 10, 1965