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Frank Broeze

Frank Broeze

Expert in maritime history

Frank Broeze (18 August 1945 – 4 April 2001) was a professor of history at the University of Western Australia.[1] His special area of interest was maritime history.

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Life and work

Born Franklin Jan Aart Broeze in Rijswijk, Netherlands, Broeze was a maritime historian, and one of the founders of the Australian Association for Maritime History. He was also one of the founders of the International Maritime History Association[2] which later became the International Maritime Economic History Association. He published widely on maritime history issues[3][4][5] as well as editing The Great Circle, the journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History.[6] He wrote ten books and had more than 100 articles published in academic journals.[7]

Broeze died on 4 April 2001 in Perth.[8] The Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize was created by the Australian National Maritime Museum in his memory.[9] In addition, a memorial lecture was inaugurated and is held each year.[10]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Broeze, Frank", Trove, 2008
  2. [2]
    Founders, International Maritime History Association
  3. [3]
    Broeze, Frank (1993), Mr Brooks and the Australian trade : imperial business in the nineteenth century, Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-84574-7
  4. [4]
    Broeze, Frank; Henderson, Graeme, 1947-; Western Australian Museum; Broeze, Frank J. A; Henderson, Graeme (1986), Western Australians & the sea : our maritime heritage, Western Australian Museum, ISBN 978-0-7309-1244-6{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. [5]
    Broeze, Frank (January 1998), Island nation : a history of Australians and the sea, St. Leonards, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin (published 1998), ISBN 978-1-74269-668-3
  6. [6]
    Broeze, Frank (1989), Brides of the sea : port cities of Asia from the 16th-20th centuries, New South Wales University Press, ISBN 978-0-86840-203-1
  7. [7]
    Obituary by Michael Pearson, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Proceedings, 26, 2001
  8. [8]
    Tull Malcolm (2001). "Obituary: Franklin (Frank) Jan Aart Broeze, 1945-2001". Australian Economic History Review. 41 (3): 325–326. doi:10.1111/1467-8446.00090.
  9. [9]
    "History Prizes". Australian National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  10. [10]
    Beazley, Kim; Australian Labor Party (13 September 2002), Inaugral Frank Broeze Memorial Lecture, retrieved 10 December 2015
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