W. F. Gisolf

Who was W. F. Gisolf?

Dr Ir Willem Frederik Gisolf was a Dutch geologist and petrographer.

Gisolf graduated from Delft University in the early 1900s. In 1910, he married Elisabeth Jacoba Cornelia van der Waals, a niece of Johannes Diderik van der Waals, from whom he separated. In the subsequent years, he invested in the company of W.H. Gispen, who had married his sister Annie Gisolf, and who could start his first company thanks to this investment.

Gisolf married Johanna C.A. zur Kleinsmiede in 1925. From 1925 to 1940 Gisolf was Director of the Hogere Burger School in Bandung in Indonesia. He died in a Japanese concentration camp in Tjimahi in 1944.

Gisolf dedicated his thesis—"Beschrijving van een microscopisch onderzoek van Gabbros en Amfibolieten herkomstig van Midden-Celebes"—to G.A.F. Molengraaff, his close friend. W.F. Gisolf is further well known from his publication in the "Jaarboek van het Mijnwezen in N.O.I." from 1924 with the title "De meteoriet van Tjerebon".

In the "Jaarboek voor het mijnwezen" Gisolf published various articles between 1920 and 1930, which later were published as separate booklets: