JAN

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• JACOB
• JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)

JACOB

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• VAN

VAN

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• JAN JACOB VAN OOSTERZEE (1817-1882)

OOSTERZEE (1817-1882)  , Dutch divine, was born at Rotterdam on the 1st of April 1817 . After acting as pastor at Alkmaar and Rotterdam, in 1863 he was made professor of biblical and practical theology at the university of Utrecht . Oosterzee earned a reputation as a preacher, was editor of the Theolog . Jahrbucher from 1845, wrote a number of noteworthy books on religious history, and published poems in Dutch (1882) . He died on the 29th of July 1882 . A collected edition of Oosterzee's works was published in French, TEuvres completes, in three volumes (1877-188o) . His autobiography appeared in 1882 . 00TACAMUND, or UTAKAMAND, a town of British India, headquarters of the Nilgiris district in Madras, approached by a rack railway from the Mettapolliem station on the Madras railway . Pop . (1901) 18,596 . It is the principal sanatorium of southern India, and summer headquarters. of the Madras government . It is placed on a plateau about 7230 ft. above the sea, with a fine artificial lake, and mountains rising above 8000 ft .

The mean

annual temperature is 58° F., with a minimum of 38° in January and a maximum of 76° in May; average annual rainfall, 49 in . The houses are scattered on the hillsides amid luxuriant gardens, and there are extensive carriage drives . In the neighbourhood are plantations of coffee, tea and cinchona . There are a brewery and two dairy farms . The Lawrence asylum for the children of European soldiers was founded in 1858, and there are also the Breeks memorial and Basel Mission high schools . See Sir F . Price, Ootacamund: A History (Madras, 1908) .