The ''Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië'' ("Journal of the East Indies") was a magazine in Dutch founded in 1838 by

W. R. van Hoëvell Wolter Robert Baron van Hoëvell (14 July 1812 – 10 February 1879) was a Dutch minister, politician, reformer, and writer. Born into nobility and trained in the Dutch Reformed Church, he worked for eleven years as a minister in the Dutch ...

, a Dutch minister working in

Batavia Batavia may refer to: Historical places * Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands * Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...

, in the

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

, in the 1830s and 1840s. The magazine published scientific studies on topics such as geography, linguistics, and the Dutch Cultivation System, as well as articles on more popular and political matters. The magazine ceased to be published temporarily when Van Hoëvell was expelled from his post; he resumed publication on his return in 1849 and edited it until 1862. The magazine ceased to exist in 1894.

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