Eduard Willem Walch

Eduard Willem Walch (9 August 1890 – 20 December 1934) was a Dutch professor of health science in the Dutch East Indies with expertise in hygiene and malaria control.

Career Walch attended Hogere Burgerschool and studied at the University of Amsterdam. He was an assistant of professor Huitinga. He did research into bacteriology and hygiene.

Walch went together his wife to Sumatra, the Dutch East Indies in 1919 starting working at Sanatorium Senembah Mij where he replaced second physician L. Pel. Afterwards he worked at the Instituut voor tropische hygiëne (Institute for tropical hygiene) in Amsterdam. Walch also learned speaking French as he later also spoke at an international congress in French. In 1910, Walch lost to American Norman T. Whitaker in a university chess competition of the University of Amsterdam against the University of Pennsylvania.

On 2 May 1918 Walch married to Gijsbertha Berendina Sorgdrager (1882-1964) who was also a doctor. They worked together at many points in time and she became director of Budi Utomo. On 5 December 1934 he went to the Netherlands due to illness of his mother.