Although the story of the Dane Dr. Agner Møller is a tragic one, it is also fascinating and depicts a man who played a minor role in the Dutch colonisation of Indonesia, and who also spent the remainder of his life trying to gain recognition for his scientific work on Nias. His greatest success and maybe his only one, was the fact that he did succeed in buying a unique collection of artefacts and sendt them to the Danish National Museum, in spite of all odds.
Not only did Dr. Møller return to Denmark with sections of the chief’s house, but also with Zoeri, the daughter of a local chief, whom he later married. Even if such a liaison was not entirely unusual in the Dutch East Indies, he did break all conventions by bringing her back to Denmark. The marriage was somewhat of a scandal in 1927, and it involved the police investigating him on a suspicion of bigamy, which proved to be true. Zoeri gave birth to a daughter, but developed schizophrenia. She was committed to the same mental hospital, where Møller was working, but he eventually left there, and they never saw each other again. She suffered a lonely death in 1972, without ever having been able to communicate with the doctors, as she did not speak any Danish.
Dr. Møllers had a notorious reputation for his inability to manage his financial affairs, this eventually forced him to work as a ship’s doctor during the Second World War, which nearly cost him his life, when the vessel he was working on was torpedoed. Before that incident he had been interned and charged with being a German spy.
He was an extraordinarily belligerent and secluded type of person. He became interested in astrology while on Nias and that resulted in him being eventually excluded from the medical profession. His dilemma was his own contempt for worldly goods and social standing and his attraction to the higher academic circles.
Dr. Møller died in 1976, but as a result of the Nias project in the National Museum of Copenhagen, his son in law Grue-Sørensen travelled to Nias and built a house for the family of Zoeri Møller.

LETTER FROM DR. MØLLER TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 28.10.1925,  Agner Møller writes for the first time about the house in Hillimondregeraja. IN DANISH.

LETTER FROM DR. MØLLER TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 08.03.1926, Agner Møller writes about the price of the house and the state of decay. IN DANISH.

LETTER FROM DR. MØLLER TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 20.02.1927, Agner møller writes about his last trip to Hillimondregeraja to buy the house. IN DANISH.

EXTRACT FROM DR. MØLLERS DIARY FROM DUTCH OSTINDIA
Agner Møller describes the hard life as an officer in Dutch Ostindia. IN DANISH.