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Also Cluijsenaer. A railways engineer, born in Breda, Netherlands and died in 's-Gravenhage there. Son of Dirk Gijsbert Louis Frederik Cluijsenaer and Jacoba Maria Mersen Senn van Basel. In 1868 07 16 he married Helena Petronella van Woelderen; they had six sons and a daughter. They got divorced on 1895 11 28 and on 1896 03 16 he married Anna Jacoba Hooreman; they did not have children. The following year he and RWJC van den Wall Bake entered the employ of the Netherlands South African Railway Company (NZASM), of which he was one of the directors. At first, the main task of the board was securing financing, but Cluysenaer later traveled to Pretoria in April 1888 to organise the work on the line to Lourenço Marques. He succeeded RAI SNETHLAGE as Chief Engineer for the NZASM. As an engineer he contracted several of his former colleagues from Sumatra. His work for the NZASM however, would only be of short duration because the Dutch State Railway, after the sudden departure of Director General Vrolik, called on him to take over the lead. He returned to Utrecht in the Netherlands in January 1890, although he remained a commissioner of the NZASM. He was succeeded by GAA MIDDELBERG on 1890 01 01. He was made an offer in 1893 to be director executive in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), which, after some hesitation, he declined. See Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands 1880-2000 for further details. References
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