Gualtherus Johannes Cornelis Kolff
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Gualtherus Johannes Cornelis Kolff

Dutch publisher and journalist (1826–1881)

Gualtherus Johannes Cornelis Kolff (8 November 1826 – 29 April 1881) was the co-founder of G. Kolff & Co., a publishing company in Batavia, Dutch East Indies of the Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad newspaper. Kolff was born in Gouda.2

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Born 1826, died 1881.1

About

His company also operated book shops. In the years after Indonesia became independent, the company moved to the Netherlands, and is now based mostly in Amsterdam and Leeuwarden. Kolff died in Leiden.

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Companies

Career

Occupation: lithographer, journalist, publisher.4 5

Personal life

  • CitizenshipKingdom of the Netherlands6