George van den Bergh

His brother Sidney James and his nephew Maarten would follow his father in business life, while George pursued an academic career. He was a lawyer in Amsterdam, 1915–1936. From 1925–33 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands. He was author of Aarde en wereld in ruimte en tijd: Een uiteenzetting voor iedereen (1935) which was translated into English in 1937 as The Universe in Space and Time (U.K. edition) and Astronomy for the Millions (U.S. edition). Etty Hillesum (An Interrupted Life) mentions that he was arrested and detained by the Nazis in 1941. He survived the war. During the 1950s he studied the longer eclipse cycles, allowing him to predict solar and lunar eclipses over a long time interval. This was published in 1951 as Regelmaat en wisseling bij zonsverduisteringen, met een aanhangsel over maansverduisteringen and translated into English in 1955 as Periodicity and Variation of Solar (and Lunar) Eclipses. In 1958 he developed a compressed form of typesetting called Hoofdletters, published as Hoofdletters, Tweeling- en Meerlingdruk. The crater Van den Bergh on the Moon was named after him.

The recorded working language is Esperanto and Dutch. Residence is recorded at Amsterdam and Van Eeghenstraat. Employment is recorded with University of Amsterdam. Positions recorded include member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and Rector of the university of Amsterdam. Work by George van den Bergh is recorded in the collections of Museon-Omniversum. Distinctions recorded are Zilveren Anjer.