Talk:Olfert Dapper

Review comments
Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:

Espresso Addict 01:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Appropriate infobox should be added
 * Portrait should be added from a source with a free license, if available. Alternative ideas for graphics include covers of the first editions of his works and/or a photograph of Dapperstraat or from the Parisian museum
 * Internal links need adding
 * Any further biographical information available should be added, including any family details, circumstances of death etc
 * Article needs expanding and should emphasise reasons for notability of subject
 * After expansion, article should be divided into appropriate subheadings
 * Information on works should be expanded and references required
 * A list of works would be interesting
 * References should be expanded and preferably converted to inline format
 * External link (in French) present which could be used to expand article

Problems with the article
There are some serious problems with this article:
 * the article mentions again and again that even today his book on Africa is a key text for African studies, citing Christies. I think this could be a bit more specific and less strong, as in that it is an important text on the history of Africa. (I edited the opening paragraph already, but there are other such references in the text)
 * more importantly though, in the influence section, it is mentioned that the Dapper museum opened in 1986, and the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans visited the museum and wrote a book on it which was published in 1973, which is physically impossible. As if this wasn't enough, running a check on the book, it was indeed published in 1973, but it also has nothing to do with the person of the article, instead it is a philosophical/religious/fiction novel and the mention of the name Dapper appear to be coincidental ( www.dbnl.org/tekst/jans037bedr01_01/jans037bedr01_01_0007.php).

I would like to ask for other editors feedback and see if they can verify the above(especially about the book). Gts-tg (talk) 14:16, 19 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Reply: W.F. Hermans, a geographer, lived at the end of his life in Paris and died in 1995. He wrote a book about Dapper, not about the museum.T. Tichelaar (talk) 12:12, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

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