According to Wikipedia, Dirk Albert Hooijer was a Dutch paleontologist. Hooijer was born in Medan on Sumatra, but spent his youth in Bogor on Java. In 1932, his family moved to The Hague where he finished his high school education at Dalton Den Haag school in 1937. Subsequently, he studied geology on the University of Leiden. In 1941 he joined the staff of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, where he was especially interested in fossil rhinoceroses and hippopotami. In 1946, he became curator of the Dubois collection. In the same year he promoted under Professor Hilbrand Boschma with his dissertation Prehistoric and fossil Rhinoceroses from the Malay Archipelago and India. From 1950 to 1951 he got a Rockefeller fellowship and worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. From 1970 until his retirement in 1979 he was professor at the University of California, Irvine.
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Pleistocene mammals from the limestone fissures of Szechwan, China. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 102, article 1 (1953) (147)
The fossil vertebrates of Ksâr'akil, a palaeolithic rock shelter in the Lebanon (1961) (64)
The fossil Hippopotamidae of Asia, with notes on the recent species (1950) (47)
Prehistoric and fossil rhinoceroses from the Malay Archipelago and India (1946) (47)
An early pleistocene mammalian fauna from Bethlehem (1958) (43)
Quaternary Langurs and Macaques from the Malay archipelago (1962) (43)
Fossil Proboscidea from the Malay Archipelago and the Punjab (1955) (43)
Fossil Bovidae from the Malay Archipelago and the Punjab (1958) (41)
Additional Miocene to Pleistocene rhinoceroses of Africa (1973) (34)
Quaternary Gibbons from the Malay Archipelago (1960) (32)
A rhinoceros from the late miocene of Fort Ternan, Kenya (1968) (30)
PLEISTOCENE REMAINS OF PANTHERA TIGRIS ( LINNAEUS ) SUBSPECIES FROM WANHSIEN , SZECHWAN , CHINA , COMPARED WITH FOSSIL AND RECENT TIGERS FROM OTHER LOCALITIES BY (29)
On fossil and prehistoric remains of Tapirus from Java, Sumatra and China (1947) (29)
Hipparions from the Late Miocene and Pliocene of northwestern Kenya (1974) (26)
THREE NEW GIANT PREHISTORIC RATS FROM FLORES LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS (1957) (23)
The late Pliocene Equidae of Langebaanweg, Cape Province, South Africa (1976) (23)
VARANUS (REPTILIA, SAURIA) FROM THE PLEISTOCENE OF TIMOR (1972) (19)
Fossil rhinoceroses from Hopefield, South Africa (1960) (17)
The fossil hippopotamus from Hopefield, South Africa (1961) (17)
Fossil Rodents from Curaçao and Bonaire (1959) (15)
Fossil rhinoceroses from the Limeworks cave, Makapansgat (1959) (15)
Pleistocene vertebrates from Celebes : XII. Notes on pygmy stegodonts (1964) (14)
Pleistocene remains of Panthera tigris (Linnaeus) subspecies from Wanhsien, Szechwan, China, compared with fossil and Recent tigers from other localities. American Museum novitates ; no. 1346 (1947) (12)
