Christiaan Bangeman Huygens

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Christiaan Diederik Emerens Johan Bangeman Huygens (born October 31, 1772 in 's-Hertogenbosch , † March 29, 1857 in Maastricht ) was a Dutch nobleman and diplomat .

Life

Bangemann Huygens was a son of the Dutch merchant Vincent Willem Bangeman (1738-1803) and his wife Catharina Constantia Huygens. His father was a member of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Christiaan Bangeman Huygens married the Danish Countess Elise von Danneskiold-Løvendal (1777–1812) in Paris in 1802 ; In 1815 he married again in Maastricht Constantia Wilhelmina (1772-1858) born. Vrijthoff . In 1834 he acquired the moated castle Henkenshage, which he later sold again.

His diplomatic career brought him as envoy of the Dutch king Louis Bonaparte from 1797 to 1807 first to the royal Danish court of Christian VII in Copenhagen , then from 1808 to 1809 to the royal Westphalian court of Jérôme Bonaparte in Kassel . After the Congress of Vienna he served as envoy and plenipotentiary minister to the Dutch King Wilhelm I at the Free Hanseatic Cities in Hamburg from 1815 to 1825, in the United States in Washington, DC from 1826 to 1830, and again in Copenhagen from 1832 to 1842.

Bangeman Huygens died in Maastricht in 1857 at the age of 84.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ch.DEJ Bangeman Huygens (Dutch) on parlement.com. Retrieved June 22, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Legation Denmark (Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Archief , Den Haag 2016. Retrieved on June 22, 2016
  3. ^ Johann Martin Lappenberg : Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . Volume 3, Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte , Hamburg 1851, p. 450. Retrieved on June 22, 2016
  4. ↑ Ulrich Simon: ASA Externa, Batavica (Netherlands and Flanders) . Archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008
  5. ↑ Gezantschap VS, 1814-1940 (Dutch) on the pages of the Nationaal Archief , Den Haag 2016. Retrieved on June 22, 2016
predecessor Office successor
Dirk Wolter van Lynden Dutch envoy to Denmark
25 Jan 1797 to 24 Apr 1807
1832 to 1842 		Joost Jacob van Aller
Johann Gotthard Reinhold (until 1809) Dutch envoy to the Hanseatic cities
1815 to 1825 		Hendrik Rudolph Willem van Goltstein
Alexandre-Joseph Goupy de Quabeck (until 1822) Dutch envoy to the United States from
1826 to 1830 		Evert Marius Adrian Martini
personal data
SURNAME Bangeman Huygens, Christiaan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bangeman Huygens, Christiaan Diederik Emerens Johan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch nobleman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH 's-Hertogenbosch
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1857
Place of death Maastricht