Adriaan Gilles Camper

He himself wrote several books on paleontology, including a catalog of his collection of fossils and minerals. His daughter Frederica married one of his pupils in Franeker, the Dutch geologist J.G.S. van Breda (who later became curator of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem). Van Breda wrote a biography of father-in-law, in which he describes him as the home-schooled wunderkind who entered the University of Franeker at age 14 already learned in natural history and modern languages from his close association with his father. Three years later, in 1776, his mother died, and his father was so struck by the loss that he undertook a leave of absence from the university to travel to Paris and the young Adriaan went with him. There due to the fame of his father, they were received with open arms by the various learned societies such as the French Academy of Sciences and consorted with Louis, Antoine Portal, Jacques-René Tenon, Julien-David Le Roy, the Count Jean-Charles de Borda, the Marquis de Condorcet, and Benjamin Franklin (the American liberator). He became member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1808.

Adriaan Gilles Camper studied at University of Franeker and Leiden University. The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Düsseldorf. Positions recorded include member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands. Work by Adriaan Gilles Camper is recorded in the collections of Museum De Lakenhal. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Union.