Herman Theodoor Colenbrander

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Herman Theodoor Colenbrander (13 December 1871 in Drachten – 8 October 1945 in Leiden) was a Dutch historian, the first director of the Commissie van Advies voor 's Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën, which has become the Institute of Dutch History.[http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn1/colenbrander "COLENBRANDER, Herman Theodoor (1871-1945)"], a biography at the Institute of Dutch History website

In 1908 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00004655 |title=H.T. Colenbrander (1871 - 1945) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |accessdate=26 July 2015}}

Between 1918 and 1925 he worked as a History professor at Leiden University, where his subject was "The history of the Dutch East Indies and history of Method in (christian) Mission" (de "geschiedenis van Nederlandsch-Indië en de geschiedenis van de methode der zending"). In 1925 the university promoted him to the Professorship in National History.