Hendrik Coenraad Prinsen Geerligs (24 November 1864 – 31 July 1953) was a Dutch chemist and sugar technologist active in Java in the early part of the 20th century.
[1] He was the son of a schoolmaster and did his primary and high schooling in Haarlem and later at the public Handelsschool in Amsterdam he wrote the final examinations there in 1883.
He worked in the chemical/technical office of the firm Wijnhoff en van Gulpen until 1891.
After which he went to Java to work as an assistant chemist at the Kagok Sugar Research Station.
[3] He was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1907.