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J. Ulehake

Best known for a bold early-20th-century booklet on reclaiming the Zuiderzee, this Dutch teacher put forward his own alternative to the better-known Lely plan. His surviving work suggests an independent mind with a practical interest in engineering and public works.

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De drooglegging der Zuiderzee. Het plan J. Ulehake contra het plan C. Lely

De drooglegging der Zuiderzee. Het plan J. Ulehake contra het plan C. Lely

by J. Ulehake

About the author

J. Ulehake is credited on Project Gutenberg as the author of De drooglegging der Zuiderzee. Het plan J. Ulehake contra het plan C. Lely, a Dutch work comparing his own reclamation proposal with the more famous plan by Cornelis Lely.

A bookseller description for a signed 1920 copy identifies him as Jakob Ulehake (1862–1930) and describes him as a teacher and a very creative thinker. The same source says he privately published and financed the booklet himself, and that he presented his plan to Queen Wilhelmina.

Very little biographical information appears to be widely available online, so the picture that survives is a modest but intriguing one: a teacher with strong ideas about large-scale Dutch water management, remembered today through a single unusual publication tied to one of the Netherlands' great engineering debates.