found: JSTOR, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, deel 139, 4de afl., 1983, In memoriam Jan Voorhoeve : 19th June 1923 - 30th January 1983, 1983, viewed January 24, 2022:pages 403-406 (died in Paris where he was staying to work with the African Languages group of CNRS; born in Djombang, the then Netherlands East Indies; doctorate on Sranan Tongo 1953, University of Amsterdam; went to Surinam in 1956 to work for the Dutch Bible Society, stayed for 6 years, became virtually native speaker of the local Creole language, Sranan Tongo; in Cameroon 1962-1964; from a student of Dutch linguistics he developed into a Creolist, and then an Africanist; entered department of African Linguistics at the University of Leiden in 1964 as assistant professor; appointed chair of African Languages in 1967; at the time of his death he was president of the African Studies Centre at Leiden, head of the Bantu Studies Section of CNRS in Paris, and board member of the West African Linguistic Society, Benue-Congo Working Group, and of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics; 3 weeks before his death he became a member of the board of the Institute for the Advancement of Surinam Studies (IBS))