Bep Schrieke


Bertram 'Bep' Johannes Otto Schrieke was a Dutch politician and academic. He served, alongside Frederik David Holleman, as professor of ethnology and history of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia. From 1939 to 1945 he served as director of the Department of Ethnology at the Colonial Institute, now the Royal Tropical Institute, in Amsterdam. He later served as education minister in the cabinet Colijn V. He was also the brother of Jaap Schrieke, a Dutch administrator during the German occupation of the Netherlands.