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Gualtherus Johannes Cornelis Kolff

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The abandoned G.J. Kolff & Co Bookstore (left) and Tjipta Niaga office (Internatio Building) of the Indonesia Trading Company (right)

Gualtherus Johannes Cornelis Kolff (8 November 1826, Gouda – 29 April 1881, Leiden) was the co-founder of G. Kolff & Co., a publishing company in Batavia, Dutch East Indies of the Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad newspaper. The company also operated book shops. In the years after Indonesia became independent, the company moved to the Netherlands, and is now based mostly in Amsterdam and Leeuwarden.

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  • Entry at Biography Portal of the Netherlands
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