Andries Hoogerwerf

Hoogerwerf's athletics career lasted from the early 1920s until 1930, during which period he competed in middle-distance running events.

Hoogerwerf competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam as a member of the Dutch 4 × 400 m relay team.

Besides he was also a member of the 4 × 400 m relay team of his club HAV, that captured the Dutch title in 1926, 1927 en 1929.

[1] In 1931 Hoogerwerf moved to Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where he worked at the Bogor Botanical Gardens.

As well as numerous reports and some 250 scientific papers, books authored by Hoogerwerf include:

The now extinct Javan tiger photographed by Andries Hoogerwerf in 1938