AA, Jean Baptiste van der. Brussels 11.6.1843 — 1900?. S.J. Flemish Jesuit Father, Missionary in Sri Lanka. Educated at Collège Saint-Michel, entered S.J. when 17. Ordained priest in 1875, taught philosophy at Louvain (Leuven). In 1895 he went to Sri Lanka and worked as teacher at the Papal Seminarium in Kandy.
Publications: Praelectionum philosophiae scholasticae brevis conspectus: Liber primus, Logica. Lovanii 1884; Liber II. Cosmologia et Organologia. 236 p. Lov. 1888; etc.
– Ceylon. Schetsen, Zeden en Gewoonten, Brieven van een Missionaris. 8+279 p. 15 pl. Leuven 1900, also in French, Ile de Ceylan, croquis, moeurs et coutumes. Lettres d’un missionnaire. Paris/Louvain 1900 (17 long letters to friends and colleagues, illustrated with his own photos).
– Lettres de Kandy: souvenir du Séminaire pontifical. 67 p. Bruxelles 1906.
Sources: Antiquarian book catalogue; suriyakantha.org.
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