Henri Jacob Victor Sody

Henri Jacob Victor Sody (31 August 1892 - 16 January 1959) was a Dutch agronomist and mammalogist born in The Hague. He died in Amsterdam in 1959. He is recognized for his contributions to the taxonomy of Indonesian mammals and some birds, as well as for his work regarding the Javan rhinoceros.

Education and work in the Dutch East Indies Sody studied at the Wageningen University and Research in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He obtained his certificate of colonial agriculture on 21 June 1917.

The following year, he traveled to Tjikadjang (now Cikadjang) near Garut, to the east of Priangan, in West Java, which at that time was part of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). There, he became a planter on a tea plantation. In 1920, he became a professor in the service of the Dutch government at an agricultural school in Bogor.

He returned to Amsterdam in 1926, and married his spouse Frederika Cohen on 7 April 1927. He returned to Java to resume teaching the same year. Upon his return to The Hague in 1933, he was depressed and declared unfit to continue service in the tropics. He was medically cleared to return to work in 1934. In this work, among other notes on the members of Murinus, Sody listed the subspecies of Rattus rattus native to those regions.