# Claudius Henricus de Goeje

> Claudius Henricus de Goeje was a Dutch Navy officer and cartographer, who took a special interest in the Wayana and Tiriyó peoples he encountered on his expeditions to the interior of Suriname. For his lifelong interest in the Amerindian peoples of the Surinamese interior, he was awarded an endowed professorship in the Linguistics and Anthropology of Suriname and Curaçao at Leiden University in 1946. De Goeje retired in 1951 and died four years later, in 1955.

*Dutch anthropologist (1879-1955)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1879-05-04
- **Died:** 1955-06-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Claudius Henricus de Goeje was a Dutch Navy officer and cartographer, who took a special interest in the Wayana and Tiriyó peoples he encountered on his expeditions to the interior of Suriname. For his lifelong interest in the Amerindian peoples of the Surinamese interior, he was awarded an endowed professorship in the Linguistics and Anthropology of Suriname and Curaçao at Leiden University in 1946. De Goeje retired in 1951 and died four years later, in 1955.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 34.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 7.7 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 3.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 30.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 20.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 68.0 / 100

## Timeline
- **1955** - Died
- **1939** - Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- **1923** - De Ruyter Medal
- **1920** - Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- **1879** - Born

## Sources
- [Claudius de Goeje](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_de_Goeje)
- [Claudius Henricus de Goeje](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_Henricus_de_Goeje)
- [كلوديوس هينريكوس د جويچ](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%DA%86)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2606748)

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