Pieter Anthonis Ouwens (14 February 1849, Amsterdam – 5 March 1922, Buitenzorg) was a Dutch scientist and Director of the Java Zoological Museum and Botanical Gardens.
They divorced a month after the birth of their only child in 1882 in Salatiga and Ouwens remarried Jeanne Dikkers in December 1883 in Purworejo.
As such he received a photo and a skin of a Komodo dragon from Lieutenant Jacques Karel Henri van Steyn van Hensbroek who had been the first Westerner to observe the lizards and had been told that they could reach 6 to 7 meters.
Ouwens dispatched a collector to Komodo who returned to Java with two adults and a young specimen.
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