page_title: Vlissingen
section_title: Science
hierarchical_section_title: Vlissingen / Notable people / Science
caption_attribution_description: English: Martin Kalbfleisch, Congressman and Mayor of Brooklyn
context_page_description: Vlissingen is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren. With its strategic location between the Scheldt river and the North Sea, Vlissingen has been an important harbour for centuries. It was granted city rights in 1315. In the 17th century Vlissingen was a main harbour for ships of the Dutch East India Company. It is also known as the birthplace of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
  Vlissingen is mainly noted for the yards on the Scheldt where most of the ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy are built.
context_section_description: Jan Bekker Teerlink (1759–1832) a Dutch plant and seed collector and winemaker
  Martin Kalbfleisch (1804–1873) a Dutch pioneer in the chemical industry and a US politician 
  Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen (1884–1966) a Dutch paleontologist
  Prof. Bonno Thoden van Velzen (born 1933) a Dutch anthropologist
  Maarten de Rijke (born 1961) a Dutch computer scientist, worked on modal logic and knowledge representation
caption: Martin Kalbfleisch, 1893
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