Abraham Patras

Grave slab in the Wayang Museum Jakarta

Abraham Patras (born May 22, 1671 in Grenoble , † May 3, 1737 in Batavia ) was Governor General of the Dutch East Indies from 1735 to 1737 .

Life

Patras came from a Huguenot family who fled to the Netherlands after the Edict of Nantes . He first worked at the office of Nathaniël Gauthier , who was also a Huguenot trader. From here he embarked on January 4, 1690 on board the Hobrée for India, in 1699 or 1700 he was stationed as a soldier in Ambon , and in 1703 in Ternate . From 1707 to 1711 he became a merchant in 1709, head of the branch of the Dutch East India Company in Djambi , from 1711 to 1715 head of Palembang , from 1717 to 1720 of the west coast of Sumatra . In 1724 he became director of the Dutch East India Company in Bengal . In 1731 Patras finally became a member of the Raad von Indië , the most important colonial organ in the Dutch East Indies. After the death of Governor General Dirk van Cloon on March 10, 1735, he won in a tight vote against his rival Valckenier and the day after he became Cloon's successor and held this position until his death.

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In Jakarta, the Wayang Museum now houses the grave slab of Abraham Patras in a courtyard.

Web links

Commons : Abraham Patras  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• https://www.vocsite.nl/geschiedenis/personalia/patras.html (page about the VOC)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Du Bois, JPI: Vies des Gouverneur Généraux avec l'Abrégé de l'histoire des establishissements Hollandois aux Indes Orientales. The Hague 1763, p. 307
2. ↑ https://www.vocsite.nl/geschiedenis/personalia/patras.html (accessed November 25, 2018)
3. ↑ Du Bois, JPI: Vies des Gouverneur Généraux avec l'Abrégé de l'histoire des establishissements Hollandois aux Indes Orientales. The Hague 1763, p. 307
4. ↑ Valentyn, Francois: Keurlyke beschryving van Choromandel. Dordrecht / Amsterdam 1726, p. 44
5. ↑ Valentyn, Francois: Keurlyke beschryving van Choromandel. Dordrecht / Amsterdam 1726, p. 43
6. ↑ Valentyn, Francois: Keurlyke beschryving van Choromandel. Dordrecht / Amsterdam 1726, p. 174
7. ^ Lauts, G .: Geschiedenis van de vestiging, uitbreiding, bloei en verval van de magt der Nederlanders en Indie. Groningen 1856, Vol. 2, pp. 333f.
8. ^ Ebert, Johann Jacob: Description and history of the capital in the Dutch East Indies Batavia. Vol. 2. Leipzig 1785, p. 160 Ebert speaks of a game of dice that solved the stalemate and made Patras governor before Valckenier.