Cornelis van Vollenhoven, Dordrecht May 8, 1874 - Leiden, April 29 1933.

Van Vollenhoven studied at Leiden University and in 1897 became private secretary of J.Th. Cremer, a colonial captain of industry and minister of Colonial Affairs. In 1901 van Vollenhoven became professor of the Adat Law of the Dutch East Indies at Leiden University. As legal scholar he had enormous influence on his students and colleagues. In 1932 he published Du droit de paix. De iure pacis in which he wrote: Prier pour la paix sans organiser le globe, c'est faire comme le Christian scientist qui prie pour sa guérison sans aller chez le médecin.

Sources

• F.D.E. van Ossenbruggen, 'Prof.mr. Cornelis van Vollenhoven als ontdekker van het adatrecht', in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië 90 (1933) I-XLI;
• jhr. W.J.M. van Eysinga, in Grotius. Annuaire international pour l"année 1934, 1-10;
• Henriette L.T. de Beaufort, Cornelis van Vollenhoven 1874-1933 (Haarlem, 1954).