Johannes van den Bosch

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Count Johannes van den Bosch

Johannes Graf van den Bosch (born February 2, 1780 in Herwynen near Bommel in Geldern , † January 28, 1844 in The Hague ) was Dutch Lieutenant General and Governor General of the Dutch East Indies . He came from the Van den Bosch family in Rotterdam .

biography

In 1797 Van den Bosch came to Java as a lieutenant , where he quickly rose to become a colonel . Due to differences with the Governor General Daendels , he said goodbye in 1810. After his return to Holland in November 1813, he agitated for the restitution of the House of Orange .

Re-employed as a colonel in the army, he became the commandant of Maastricht in 1815 and later major general . He founded the Society for the Establishment of Poor Colonies and in particular the Frederiksoord colony (cf. the description in Baedeker ). In 1823 he married Rudolfine Wilhelmine Elisabeth von Stürler (1790-?), Daughter of the Dutch officer Rudolf Gabriel von Stürler and Daniella Daniella Elisabeth van Oosterhoudt.

In 1827 he was sent back to Batavia as general commissioner , where he became governor in 1830. Returning in 1835, he took over the Ministry of the Colonies , but left voluntarily in 1839 and was elevated to the rank of count . He died on January 28, 1844 on his estate near The Hague.

In 1835 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Baedeker: Belgium and Holland . Verlag von Karl Baedeker, Coblenz 1861, p. 282 [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Bosch, Johannes van den
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosch, Johannes Graf van den; Bosch, Jan van den
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Lieutenant General and Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Herwynen near Bommel, Geldern
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1844
Place of death The hague