| 'Driftig van spraak, levendig van gang..', biography D.H. Kolff |
 November 5, 2011, at The Hague (Scheveningen) the first print of the biography of Dirk Hendrik Kolff (B XVIId) will be handed over. The titel of this biography is 'Driftig van spraak, levendig van gang, Herinneringen van marineofficier Dirk Hendrik Kolff (1761-1835)'. The issue has been made possible by the Kolff Family Association and the Linschoten-Vereeniging.
Because the issue is in Dutch, the following link leads to a Dutch page:
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| Branch B: dies out |
 When Coby Kolff (B XVIf2), as the last of the three children of Louis Kolff (B XVIf) died at Zutphen on February 21, 2011, branch B of the Family Kolff died out. Coby was the last of the three children of this branch, earlier Nicoline died in 1998 and after Louis Charles died in 2005. With the death of all of these three children the so called 'blood line' of branch B ended. The Family has always had three major branches A, B, C. Now all we have is A, and C.
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| Kolff Trophies handed out on the 25th lustrum Kolfbond |
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Because of the 25th Lustrum on May 15, 2010, the Kolff Family Association donated two trophies for the kolf championships, organized by the KNKB (Royal Netherlands Kolf Union).
Dirk Kolff, (Board), who is about to hand ove the two trophies to the champions, is taking to one of the members of the KNKB Board. |
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Annemarie and Dirk Kolff (CBCA XVIIn) have just handed out the two trophies, which were made available by the Kolff Family Association, to the kolf champions of 2010. This ceremony took place o May 15, 2010, at Berkhout, in the Dutch province of Noord Holland, on the occasion of 150 years jubilee of the KNKB. |
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| A dandy in the 'Orient', Louis Couperus in Africa |
 The diary on her voyage to Algeria in 1921 of Ella Kolff-van der Giessen (CBCD XVIv) has been used in the publication 'Een dandy in de Oriënt, Louis Couperus in Afrika' (A dandy in the Orient, Louis Couperus in Africa), by José Buschman (first appeared April, 2009).
José Buschman describes the travels of the famous Dutch writer Louis Couperus to Africa, Algeria and Tunesia, in 1920/1921, using several links - such as Ella's diary - of people that travelled to Algeria in the same period. The family link is, fully within the same CBCD branch: the sister of Ella's spouse Jan was married to a Vlielander Hein, in fact to the son of Couperus' sister. Later, one of Ella and Jan's sons, Jan, marries a daughter Schalkwijk-Vlielander Hein.
The diary of Ella can be found at the Kolff website in: Biographies: A Voyage to Algeria in 1921.
The image links to the book at the publishers' site.
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| Start '100 Jaar Kolff' (100 Years Kolff) |
 On May 12, 2011, the Willem Kolff Stichting and the Nierstichting held a symbolic starting event at Bussum, Netherlands, for the celebrations on the occasion of the 100th year of birth of prof.dr. Willem Johan Kolff (CBB XVIIh). His most ground-breaking invention - the artificial kidney - saved millions of lives all over the world. A mile-stone on which in 2011 a lot of attention will be given with lectures, a congress, and other activities.
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| Opening Kolff Room |
 On Wednesday November 12, 2008, 65 years after the first treatment of a patient took place at that location, the office of medical inventor Prof.dr. Willem J. Kolff (CBB XVIIh) was opened in the former Stadsziekenhuisgebouw
(Town Hospital) of Kampen geopend as a museum room on Kolff and the articifial kidney. The restauration of this room was made possible, amongst others, with funds of the Kolff Family Association. This room, an overview exhibition and a historical walking route are the foundations of a new touristic historical arrangement with which the Willem
Kolff Stichting (Willem Kolff Foundation) wants to expand the history of Willem Kolff to a medical-historic attraction. More at History: Persons: Willem Kolff. |
| Research on Willem Marinus Kolff |
 The Netherlands State Archives (Nationaal Archief) helps college
students to do research on 15 prisoners of the 'Oranjehotel' during
the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. This project started April/May
2004. One of these 15 people is Willem Marinus Kolff (AC XVIe), who
was taken away from this prison to a concentration camp in Poland
and who died there.
Go to this Research Website at the Nationaal Archief. More on Willem Kolff at this site at Biographies: 1939-1950: Willem Marinus en Biographies: Deil. |
| Stichting Cornelis Geertruyus Kolff |
| The Stichting (Foundation) Cornelis Geertruyus Kolff has been set up to safeguard family
items such as paintings, glassware, porcelain, artifacts, and other valuable
family items. Often members of the family have such valuable items that
they do not really want to keep for themselves. Or they don't have the possibility to keep them in their homes. Items that hold a certain
value for the Family as a whole. These items can be placed into this foundation.
The foundation will become the owner of the items, but you can either keep them at your home, or the foundation places them with
other family members. They are then 'on loan' to that family member.
For more information
on this foundation contact the Archivist. |
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