Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen

• Anglo Boere Oorlog - Foreign Volunteer
• 2de HUWELIK
• Direkteur, Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein (pdf)
• Science Bio Excerpt:

Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen, palaeontologist and museum director, was the son of Jan van Hoepen, gold prospector, farmer and photographer, and his wife Johanna Margaretha Goudriaan. He came to South Africa with his parents around 1890, received some education in English and Dutch private schools and later attended the Government Gymnasium in Pretoria. When, at the age of fifteen, the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) broke out he joined the Boer forces, but was soon captured and sent back to Pretoria to continue his education. However, he again took part in military operations, was captured a second time when the British forces occupied Pretoria in June 1900 and deported to the Netherlands. There he completed his schooling and qualified as a mining engineer at the Technische Hogeschool (Technical University)in Delft. He continued his studies and was awarded the doctoral degree in 1910 with a thesis entitled De bouw van het Siluur van Gotland (The structure of the Silurian of Gotland [a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea]).

Returning to South Africa van Hoepen was appointed as palaeontologist at the Transvaal Museum (now the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History) in October 1910.