Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer

A.J.F. (Arnold Johan Ferdinand) van Laer (21 October 1869, Utrecht - 25 March 1955, Albany, New York) was an archivist, translator, editor, and historian of Dutch-language documents from New Netherland and seventeenth century Albany, New York.[1]

For other uses, see Van Laer.

Career

From 1887 until 1892 Van Laer studied in Delft.[2] He emigrated to Albany, New York in 1897, where he married Naomi van Deurs (1868–1930), with whom he had three sons.[3][4] Van Laer became the archivist at the New York State Library at Albany.[5] He worked tirelessly the remainder of his life to translate and to reconstruct documents damaged in the New York State Capitol library fire of 25 March 1911.[6]

gollark: Ah, ye olden trolley problem.
gollark: At least I think it was.
gollark: Ooh, ridiculous Turing-complete thing: AE2 autocrafting (it's a Minecraft mod).
gollark: The infipage has some code lying around for binary<->number conversion.
gollark: Though all esolangs *could be encoded that way*.

References
  1. Bielinski, Stefan. "Arnold Van Laer". New York State Museum. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. Registration in Delft
  3. "Family of Dutch archivist A.J.F. van Laer donate books to state". syracuse.com. The Associated Press.
  4. Van Laer family in Albany in the 1910 United States Census
  5. Bulletin of Information State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Princeton University: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 1918. p. 29.
  6. "Archivist A.J.F. van Laer". www.newnetherlandinstitute.org.
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