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• Hij is geboren op 4 september 1883 in Maastricht (Limburg, The Netherlands).
• Een kind van Jan Marius van STEIN CALLENFELS en Suzanna Geertruida ROOKMAKER
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 30 oktober 2016.

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De familie verhuist op 25 April 1893 vanuit Maastricht naar Nijmegen.

Heden overleed tot onze diepe droefheid onze innig geleifde Vader, Behuwd- en Grootvader
Jan Marius van STEIN CALLENFELS
Generaal-Majoor der Infanterie B.
in den ouderdom van bijna 82 jaar.
Bennekom, 22 April 1934
Batavia: Dr. P.V. VAN STEIN CALLENFELS
Bennekom: J.A.C. VAN STEIN CALLENFELS
Wonosobo: W.S. VAN STEIN CALLENFELS, E. VAN STEIN CALLENFELS-BRUECKNER en Kind
Soest: F.N. VAN STEIN CALLENFELS
Sedep: O.J. VAN STEIN CALLENFELS, A. VAN STEIN CALLENFELS-POSNO
De teraardebestelling zal plaats hebben Donderdag a.s. ·Äòs middags 1 uur op de Algemeene Begraafplaats te Bennekom.

The Sydney Morning Herald 11-06-1938
CALLENFELS OF THE INDIES.
Burly Scientist and "Character."
CONAN DOYLE ORIGINAL.
By R. C. H. McKie, Singapore.
Professor Pieter van Stein Callenfeis, best-known and most colourful 'Dutch character in the Far East, and world authority on the pre-history of south-eastern Asia, is dead.
Equally well known in the Netherlands, Indies, SÏalaya, Philippine Islands, Siam, French Indo-China, and Hong Kong, the professor was an almost legendary figure in the East. His Falstaffian build - he was six feet four inches and weighed more than 20 stone - his booming voice, bushy beard, and flowing hair his capacity to drink more bottles of whisky than any man living and his remarkable work for science in this part of the world will not soon be forgotten.
It is accepted that Callenfeld was the original of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Professor Challenger, hero of The Lost World. Conan Doyle met Callenfels in Kuala Lumpur 30 years ago and immortalised him as the scientist who discovered a lost world in the depths of Central America. In the fictional Professor Challenger the figure and character of the eminent anthropologist are clearly seen leaving no doubt as to the Identity of the flesh and blood character out of which the pen
and-ink figure was fashioned.
A "Character."
As famous as his scientific achievements and physical ' proportions was the old professor's
Rabelaisian wit, and his stories are told from Colombo to Hong Kong.
During a census in Java he was asked: "How many children have you?" "Since I arrived
in Java at the beginning of this century," he replied, √´âˆšÆthe population has increased by 15.000.000√Æ.
In Java, Callenfels will go down as probably one of the greatest characters in Dutch colonial history, not only for his brilliant scientific work but "for his irreverent and puckish sense
of humour.
One of the stories deals with the professor when he was a cadet in the Dutch colonial civil service his duties including the super intendence of Government coffee plantations. One day the Resident came through on tour and was perturbed to find that monkeys had been doing much damage to the coffee. A month later Callenfels received a letter from the Resident expressing the hope that he was
paying strict attention to the coffee plantations. He replied ìSir I have the honour to report that there have been no monkeys in the coffee plantations since you were here.î
Authority in Uniform
Another story relates to the early days of the civil service. At the club one evening a discussion arose as to what was authority in colonial administration. The majority maintained that it lay in the personality of the individual civil servant but Callenfeld asserted that it rested on the uniform and nothing else. He decided to prove his argument. He called his carriage, placed his syce on the box,
dressed his gardener in full-dress civil service uniform, put him into the open carriage and ordered the syce to parade the town. The population at the sight of the uniform squatted reverently on the ground as the carriage passed along the streets. But there is the gem of stories which will
be remembered as long as Holland holds the Indies of the terrible occasion when a K.P.M.
steward inadvertently poured water into the professor s whisky. The natives say that his shout that night was heard from Batavia to Bali.
When Professor Callenfels who was in Singapore for the Congress of Far East Prehistorlans left for Rangoon his steamer bunk had to be widened and strengthened to hold his huge bulk.
He recently retired from Ihe position of Director of the Archaeologlcal Department of the Netherlands Indies after 35 years service with the Government.
One pre-history authority wiiting some time ago on Callenfels said that the world had to thank him for most of the discoveries of pre-history in Malaya and for the interpretatlon of some of its early history also.
Light of Eternity
Pre-history the writer said, was the professors passion His motto was √¨Look at everything in the light of eternity, for Tutankhamon is merely a boy of yesterday.âˆšÆ Hls tact in enlisting the sympathy of Asiatic helpers, often uneducated peasants, and in overcoming difficulties his sleuth instinct, the
fairness with which he went about his work, rejecting his previous conclusions If they were discounted by fresh findings, contributed largely to his success.
His motto in the field was ìExamine all things, but hold fast to that which is true.î
There were in Bali·Äòs ancient temples many inscriptions in brass In a charactei previously unknown. Callenfels induced a high priest to adopt him as a son by the ceremony of mixing of bloods. Thus initiated he was allowed to enter these hitherto closed temples, where he deciphered and translated script bearing on the old Balinese land tenure system.
The most important recent work by Callenfels in Malaya was his research into the origin of the Melanesoid man, precursor of the South Seas Melanesian race. His principal excavation was in the shell heaps on the border between Province Wellesley and the Kuala Muda district of Kedah. Here the Melanoids lived on a shellfish diet 4 000 B C. Callenfels found their bones and implements
embedded in the shell heaps around their cave dwellings.
One of Callenfels·Äòs most remarkable characteristics was his ability to arouse the interest of the layman in his subject. When he came to Malaya, after retiring from the Netherlands Indies service, the majority of educated people in the country look so little Interest in its past that they did not even
know that there had been a Stone Age in the Peninsula. Callenfels, however, was such an extraordinarily picturesque and rousing personality, that he made people think about these things, and he also gave the lay public an entirely new consciousness of Malaya's place in the wider Malaysian background, both in pre-history and historic times.
His lecture on the Java ape man in Singapore two years ago was considered the most brilliant popular exposition of an abstruse scientific subject ever heard in this part of the world.
Well did Professor van Stein Callenfels deserve the title given him by a London newspaper some years ago: îTwenty four Stone of Solid Science."

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