Anthony Hendrik Nicolaas Verwey

1918 – 2001
Tibet, popular Hinduism

Curriculum vitae

1918born in ‘s-Gravenhage on April 14
studied law and Indology in Amsterdam and Leiden
1947-1981staffmember of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden (specialized in popular Hinduism and objects of Tibetan origin)
2001died in Leiden on January 7

Publications

1971 Review of: A.J.Bernet Kempers, Borobudur: Mysteriegebeuren in steen, Verval en restauratie, Oudjavaans volksleven, Wassenaar 1970. BTLV 127,2: 280-284.
1975 Tentoonstelling: Pabuji, een Indiase held, zijn verhaal ‘hersteld’, 28 febr.-12 mei 1975, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ‘Justinus van Nassau’, Breda / [tekst van A.H.N. Verwey], Breda.
1980 “The presentation of Hinduism and Buddhism in the National Museum of Ethnology: some suggestions.” In: W.R. van Gulik et al. (eds), From field-case to show-case: research, acquisition and presentation in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National museum of ethnology), Leiden: in tribute to professor P.H. Pott on the 25th anniversary of his directorship of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden , Amsterdam, pp. 123-137.
1983 & Losang Paldhen Gyalzur, “Spells on the life-wood: an introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist ceremony of consecartion.” Ria Kloppenborg (ed.), Selected studies on ritual in the Indian religions: essays to D.J. Hoens, Leiden, pp. 169-196.