Johann Gerhard von Angelbeek

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Johann Gerhard von Angelbeek (1727–1799)

Johann Gerhard von Angelbeek (born September 12, 1727 in Wittmund ; † September 2, 1799 in Colombo ) was a lawyer, later governor of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Malabar and then Ceylon . In 1796 he had to hand over Ceylon to the English.

Life

Johann Gerhard von Angelbeek's father Christian von Angelbeek († 1734) was a priest in Westerholt , Wittmund and Funnix . His mother was born Schmidt from Aurich . He attended the Latin school in Jever and, according to his father's will, was to become a lawyer. In 1744 he went to the University of Halle, Handel and his way of life soon forced a change to the University of Göttingen. Here he was soon imprisoned for his debts, which he knew how to use for studies. So he was able to obtain his degree in 1747 and settled as a lawyer in Wittmund. He was very active in business and society. He was always in a good mood and knew something about music and poetry. The pleasure cost a lot of money, more than he earned, and he neglected his business and made trips to Bremen, Hamburg and Holland. In 1749, the Prussian Grand Chancellor Samuel von Cocceji reorganized the judiciary. This prompted Angelbeek to secretly make his way to Holland, where a businessman friend of his helped him further. So he studied Dutch law in Utrecht.

South Africa

In 1751 he sailed from Rotterdam to the Cape of Good Hope with the VOC's Schagenbos . There he worked again as a lawyer. There he married Jacomina von Levern (* August 18, 1732, † February 13, 1793) the daughter of the citizen captain Abraham Leever and his wife Magaretha Paasen . The girl received a good trousseau from her father, a rich merchant, and Angelbeek was able to pay her debts in East Friesland.

Batavia and Ceylon

As early as 1752 he embarked for Batavia with his family. He worked as a lawyer and soon made a handsome fortune. He learned Portuguese and Malay and was soon able to deal with the national laws. He rose in the ranks of the VOC, he was a member of the Weeskammer (pupil college), then sub-merchant. He was then transferred to Chinchiera (Sinsure), Bengal, as the secretary of the police. When a war broke out in Ceylon between the Dutch and the Kingdom of Kandy, he was sent as a mediator. Since he was able to broker a contract, he was appointed chief merchant and governor of Tutucoryn on the Malabar coast in 1769 . He had his residence in Cochin . He expanded the defense of the city. Therefore she was not attacked by the English during the war. In 1787 he became an extraordinary councilor of India and governor and director of the possessions in Ceylon. Therefore he moved to Colombo on Ceylon in 1791. When the English occupied the city in 1796, he handed it over to General Stuart without a fight . He stayed as a private citizen in Colombo where he died in 1799. He was buried in the Wolvendaal Church in Colombo.

Works

  • 1778, Thought over de voortplanting van het christendom in Ceilon
  • Role of the inland christians met hair lijfigen in de maand augustus 1777

family

He married Jacobine von Levern in 1751 (* August 18, 1732, † February 13, 1793). The couple had a son and three daughters. He sent the family to Europe in 1762. His children were:

  • Johann Christian (July 2, 1757 - November 15, 1829) ⚭ Maria Aletta van de Graaff (April 14, 1752 - October 23, 1813) (sister of Willem Jacob)
  • Christina Elisabeth (January 30, 1756 - June 18, 1792) ⚭ Willem Jacob van de Graaf (1737–1804)
  • Apollonia Magdalena (1759–1800)
⚭ Frederik Jacob Billing († 1787)
⚭ 1788 Cornells Dionysius Krayenhoff (* August 2, 1744, † April 2, 1792) from Hoorn, commander of Galle
⚭ 1793 Joseph Emanuel von Blonay († April 9, 1804)

literature

  • Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Volume 5, p. 42, digitized
  • FWBF Knesebeck, Historical paperback of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover , p. 87, digitized by the Blonay family
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still living in the provinces that belong to the present Kingdom of Hanover since the Reformation and are still alive , Volume 1, p. 42f, digitized version
  • General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , p. 43f, digitized
  • Biographical Lexicon for Ostfriesland, Volume 3, pp. 20–22, Johann Gerhard von Angelbeek
  • New contributions to ethnography, volume 3, p.22 Forster meets Angelbeek
  • Archive for Kinship Research and All Related Areas, Volume 15, p. 57
  • Jan Lambertus Van Spall, Memoir of Johan Gerard Van Angelbeek , cover
  • Born 260 years ago in Wittmund . In: Harlinger Heimatkalender for 1987, p. 80
  • Ordinances on the second gospel. Jubelfest in Ost-Friesland , p. 107, digitized Christian von Angelbeck in the list of preachers in the Wittmund office

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De navorscher-Nederlands archief voor de genealogy Heraldiek, Heemkunde en geschiedenis, Volume 50, 1900, p 442, Sex Le (e) ver Index
  2. ^ "The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society", Volumes 14-15, p. 240
  3. ^ The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volumes 18-19, p. 122
  4. ↑ De Wapenheraut: maanblad gewijd aan geschiedenis, geslacht-, wapen-, oudheidkunde, enz , volume 2, p. 129, partial view
  5. ↑ Life data from: Algemeen Nederlandsch familieblad , 1884, Volume 1, p. 2, partial view
  6. ↑ http://gw.geneanet.org/luitpold?lang=de;pz=henri+lumis;nz=appell;ocz=0;p=josef+emanuel;n=von+blonay+dessuchaux
personal data
SURNAME Angelbeek, Johann Gerhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angelbeek, Joan Gerardus van; Angelbeek, Johan Gerand Van; Angelbek, Johan Gerhards from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and governor of the Dutch East India Company
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittmund
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1799
Place of death Colombo