Linschoten’s Life

This chapter is about Linschoten’s life. After a Timeline (Sect. 4.1), we introduce Linschoten as a young boy and his family background, including the period that he lived in the Dutch Indies and was interned in a Japanese camp (Sect. 4.2). After his return to the Netherlands (Sect 4.3), we focus on the start of his academic career as a student and assistant and associate to his professor, Buytendijk, as a professor and successor of Buytendijk, and on his friends and enemies (Sect. 4.4). We end the chapter with a section on his health and his death (Sect. 4.5).