Arius van Tienhoven (Gorinchem, May 3, 1886 - September 8, 1965) was a Dutch physician. He worked as a surgeon in Serbia during the Balkan War and as head of the Valjevo military hospital surgery department during World War I. As a member of an International Investigation Commission, he participated in a war crimes investigation of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Serbia against the civilian population.

He reported his experience in newspaper articles and in the book De gruwelen van den oorlog in Servië | Dr. A. van Tienhoven (in Italian "War Crimes in Serbia" by Dr. A. van Tienhoven's War Surgeon Diary), in 1915, written in collaboration with the well-known author Marie Joseph Brusse.

He married Jacoba M. de Groote (March 25, 1884 - April 26, 1965), a nurse who had witnessed her work as a war surgeon. They are buried together with Naarden.

In 2005 only van Tienhoven's work was translated into Serbian. In his honor he is called Arius, a center for scientific and cultural cooperation between Serbs and Dutch. Notemodify wikitesto

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