12.7 The End
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Fig. 12.11 Tombstones of the Kapteyn family at the ‘Westerveld’ cemetery at Driehuis in
the municipality of Velsen. The middle one is for Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, his granddaughter Greta Noordenbos, his wife Catharina Elisabeth Kapteyn–Kalshoven and his
son-in-law Willem Cornelis Noordenbos. On the left Kapteyn‘s daughter Jacoba Cornelia
Noordenbos-Kapteyn, her son Willem Noordenbos and his wife. To the right Kapteyn’s
son Gerrit Jacobus and his wife Wilhelmina Henriette van Gorkom Provided by greatgrandson Jan Willem Noordenbos, who looks after these graves.
of all fulfilled that hour with a holy consecration.
In the evening Kor Kuiler, the conductor of the Harmonie Orchestra, performed
Beethoven’s Funeral March as a tribute to the great Groninger.
Peter Gijsbert van Anrooy had been conductor of the Groninger Orkest
Vereeniging, the local symphony orchestra of Groningen, (1905–1910) and at
that period befriended Kapteyn. Hugo Willem Constantijn Bordewijk (1879–
1939) was professor of law, economics and statistics between 1918 and 1938.
He and his wife and the Kapteyns had become good friends in the years that
the Kapteyns lived in Hotel de Doelen, not far from the Bordewijk residence.
Historian Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), son of Kapteyn’s great friend Dirk
Huizinga, had the intention to write a biography of Kapteyn together with
Willem de Sitter (for more details see my scientific biography [5]), but that
was never completed. In an in memoriam in the well-known literary and
cultural magazine De Gids he wrote [116]:
A few weeks before his death, suffering but full of courage and hope, he told Peter
van Anrooy, who in his time in Groningen was fortunate enough to become one
of Kapteyn’s best friends: Perhaps this is still the happiest time of my life. An
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Fig. 12.11 Tombstones of the Kapteyn family at the ‘Westerveld’ cemetery at Driehuis in
the municipality of Velsen. The middle one is for Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, his granddaughter Greta Noordenbos, his wife Catharina Elisabeth Kapteyn–Kalshoven and his
son-in-law Willem Cornelis Noordenbos. On the left Kapteyn‘s daughter Jacoba Cornelia
Noordenbos-Kapteyn, her son Willem Noordenbos and his wife. To the right Kapteyn’s
son Gerrit Jacobus and his wife Wilhelmina Henriette van Gorkom Provided by greatgrandson Jan Willem Noordenbos, who looks after these graves.
of all fulfilled that hour with a holy consecration.
In the evening Kor Kuiler, the conductor of the Harmonie Orchestra, performed
Beethoven’s Funeral March as a tribute to the great Groninger.
Peter Gijsbert van Anrooy had been conductor of the Groninger Orkest
Vereeniging, the local symphony orchestra of Groningen, (1905–1910) and at
that period befriended Kapteyn. Hugo Willem Constantijn Bordewijk (1879–
1939) was professor of law, economics and statistics between 1918 and 1938.
He and his wife and the Kapteyns had become good friends in the years that
the Kapteyns lived in Hotel de Doelen, not far from the Bordewijk residence.
Historian Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), son of Kapteyn’s great friend Dirk
Huizinga, had the intention to write a biography of Kapteyn together with
Willem de Sitter (for more details see my scientific biography [5]), but that
was never completed. In an in memoriam in the well-known literary and
cultural magazine De Gids he wrote [116]:
A few weeks before his death, suffering but full of courage and hope, he told Peter
van Anrooy, who in his time in Groningen was fortunate enough to become one
of Kapteyn’s best friends: Perhaps this is still the happiest time of my life. An