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
- Bosch, 3) Jan van den . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 244.
- Bosch, Jan van den . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 3, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, pp. 250–251 . - (p. 251)
- Bosch , Jan van der B. 3). In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition (1857-1865). Altenburg ( zeno.org ).
- Susan Legêne: BOSCH, Johannes van den , In: Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeiders Moving in Nederland (BWSA), Volume 8, 2001, pp. 12-17. Online at IISG (Dutch)
- Bosch, Johannes graaf van den , In: PC Molhuysen, PJ Blok (ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek , Volume 2, AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1912, pp. 221–227, online at dbnl.org (Dutch)
Individual evidence
Web links
- J. graaf van den Bosch on parlement.com (Dutch)
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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 |