Roger van Zandvoort
Biography
Roger van Zandvoort was born in Heerlen, Holland, in 1958.
The words “collect”, “organize”, “nature”, “complete”, have been part of his leitmotiv since he was very young.
In order to find something to compensate his want of contact with an idealized nature he became a big collector. In attempting to collect nature from “a” to “z”, he started to collect butterflies when he was 7 years old.
When he was 14, he slept with open windows through the Dutch winter, with the hope that his collection of more than 100 cacti could have the ideal dry and cold temperature so they would bloom in Spring.
At 20 he went to the Nederlandse Akademie voor Natuurgeneeskunde, in Hilversum, the Netherlands. Due to his deep knowledge of phytotherapy (herbal medicine), acquired before and during this study, he was immediately invited to start lecturing when he finished his study at the Akademie, while already making the phytotherapeutic lecturing material.
In 1982 he started work on additions and corrections to Kent’s Repertory, without initial intention of publication. At that time, the work was for the benefit of his patients, but gradually he started to dedicate less time to them and more time to his work on the repertory.
From these efforts sprang a database called the Complete Repertory that started to be used commercially in combination with MacRepertory by Kent Homeopathic Associates and later with CARA by Miccant and Hompath, and now also joined by several others. (See Purchase left.)
In 1990, guided by Dr. Künzli and later by Hansjörg Hee and Dario Spinedi, 40 medical doctors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland started to integrate Boger’s Bönninghausen Repertory into the Complete Repertory. During 6 years Roger received and integrated their work into the Repertory.
After 25 years of work, consisting of updating and improving the Complete Repertory, Roger still works full-time on this project, busy including the classic works from Germany and the United States that have never been used, like Noak and Trinks, Possart, the provings from the German magazines, the articles in the old American journals and, the most important, the handwritten additions that Bönninghausen made in his last two repertories – Systematisch Alphabetisches Repertorium der nicht-antipsorischen Arzneien and the Systematisch Alphabetisches Repertorium der antipsorischen Arzneien – which were made based on clinical confirmations from his practice.