Ferjan Ormeling Jr.
Dutch cartographer
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Ferjan Ormeling Jr.'s Degrees
- Bachelors Geography University of Amsterdam
- Masters Cartography Utrecht University
- PhD Geoinformatics Delft University of Technology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ferdinand Jan Ormeling Jr. is a Dutch cartographer. He is the son of the well known cartographer Ferdinand Jan Ormeling Sr. Biography Ferjan Ormeling lived in The Hague until he was six years old. His parents Ferdinand Jan Ormeling Sr. and K.J. ten Hoopen were both geographers. In 1948 the family moved to Java, where his father set up the Geographical Institute of Batavia. In 1961 Ferjan Jr. went to study geography at the University of Groningen. He attended lectures by Willem Frederik Hermans, among others. During his entire study period, Ferjan worked at J.B. Wolters at the Bosatlas, of which his father had meanwhile become editor-in-chief. In 1968 he married, in 1971 and 1973 a son and a daughter were born. After graduating in 1969, he went to work at the Utrecht University under Professor Cornelis Koeman, with whom he had attended secondary courses. On June 3, 1983, he received his doctorate with a thesis on the inclusion of geographical names in minority languages on topographical maps. Promoters were Cornelis Koeman and Dick Blok.
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