Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk (13 April 1847 – 3 September 1908) was a Dutch
jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
and politician. He was
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
The governor-general of the Dutch East Indies ( nl, gouverneur-generaal van Nederlands Indië) represented Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies between 1610 and Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia in 1949. Occupied by Japanese fo ...
from 1888 until 1893.
[Mr. C. Pijnacker Hordijk]
''Parlement & Politiek''. Retrieved on 17 January 2015.
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1847 births
1908 deaths
Dutch jurists
Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies
Members of the Senate (Netherlands)
People from Tiel
University of Amsterdam faculty
Utrecht University alumni
Utrecht University faculty
Commanders of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Grand Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau
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