Remembering Klaas Willem van der Veen (1930–2016)

On Monday, 30 May 2016, Klaas van der Veen died after a long period of vascular dementia. Until his retirement in 1995, Klaas had been employed as an assistant and later associate professor in the Anthropology Department of the University of Amsterdam. In 1978 we cofounded the medical anthropology section of that department, after which we worked closely together for seventeen years. Klaas was a perfect colleague and a much-loved teacher. His popularity can be concluded from the fact that twice in his life colleagues presented him with a liber amicorum, first in 1980 at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his appointment at the university and again in 1995 upon his retirement.