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Demographic treatises and textbooks in Dutch

tradition. After the famous study by John Graunt (1620–1674) of the London “bills of mortality,” the Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) reflected further on life table theory. During the 18th century, Nicolaas Struyck (1687–1769) and Willem Kersseboom (1690–1771) published some basic demographic studies. “Kersseboom had already pictured the methodologic outline of demographic forecasting in the 18th century” (De Gans, 1999, p. 93). As a tribute to him, the NIDI staff planted a cherry tree (Kersseboom in old Dutch) in the NIDI garden. The 20th century was a particularly thriving period for Dutch demography. The Netherlands Demographic Society (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Demografie [NVD]) was created in 1928 at the same time as the creation of the IUSSP. Almost immediately, annual meetings were convened with presentations and discussions on a wide variety of topics, such as aspects of rapid population growth, fertility rates, and population projections. Some famous names from the first half of the 20th century are Angenot (1901–1979), Delfgaauw (1905–1984), Holwerda (1887–1944), Methorst (1868–1955), ‘t Hooft (1896–1941), Van Lohuizen (1890–1956), Van Zanten (1874–1944), Verrijn Stuart (1865–1948), and Wiebols (1895–1960). In Belgium, the statisticians Quetelet (1796–1874) and Verhulst (1804–1849) in the 19th century merit special attention. This overview briefly summarizes the most important contributions to demography made by native Dutch speakers over the past 100 years. In the wake of the above-mentioned demographers, several others contributed to questions such as: What is demography? What are demographic tools? How does one become a demographer? What makes demography different from other scientific disciplines? From the NIDI library’s online documentation system, we have selected 25 demographic treatises and textbooks published before 1980 in the Dutch language and 12 that were published during or after 1980. At first glance, it may be surprising that the number of publications decreased while the field of population research increased significantly after 1980. Many of the most basic treatises are already available, some in Dutch but mostly in other languages, and understanding other languages is not a problem for native Dutch speakers, Moreover, Dutch researchers mainly publish in English rather than their native language. To judge whether Dutch-language demographers have also published treatises in other languages we made another search on the online documentation system, and as a consequence added 7 more publications to the list; all of which were published in 1982 or later. In total, our appendix includes 44 publications, more than half of which were published before 1980. The 25 demographic treatises published before 1980 were mainly published in the Netherlands, apart from one title published in Belgium and two in South Africa. Most of these treatises are basic introductions to demography as a scientific field in its broadest sense, although a large minority can be classified as focusing Q A P P E N D I X