Hendrik Caspar Romberg

Hendrik Caspar Romberg (1741- ), also known as Johannes Caspar Romberg, was a Dutch merchant-trader and diplomat.

Romberg travelled from Europe to work in East Asia with the Dutch East Indies Company (or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch). At this point in Japanese history, the sole VOC outpost (or "factory") was situated on Dejima island in the harbor of Nagasaki on the southern island of Kyushu.

Romberg was four times sent to Japan as Opperhoofd or chief negotiant and officer of the VOC trading post.

Romberg traveled five times to Edo.^[1]

In this period, the company registers in Leiden also listed him as chief warehouseman and paymaster.^[2] He was the head of VOC activities in Japan during four discrete periods:

• 27. October 1783 - _.August 1784
• November 84 - 21 November 1785
• 21 November 1786 - 30 November 1787
• 1 August 1789 - 13 November 1790

In the off-years, he spent time in Batavia, which was at that time the VOC headquarters in the East Indies.^[3]

Romberg's account of the Sangoku-maru is a scant record of the brief attempt by the Tokugawa shogunate to create a sea-going vessel in the 1780s. The ship sank; and the tentative project was abandoned when the political climate in Edo shifted.^[4]

Contents 1 See also 2 Notes 3 References 4 External links

See also

• VOC Opperhoofden in Japan

Notes

References

• French, Calvin L. (1974). Shiba Kōkan: artist, innovator, and pioneer in the westernization of Japan. New York: Weatherhill. 10-ISBN 0834800985/13-ISBN 9780834800984; OCLC 1301516
• Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo (東京大学史料編纂所, Tokyo daigaku shiryō hensan-jo^?). (1963). Historical documents relating to Japan in foreign countries: an inventory of microfilm acquisitions in the library of the Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo. OCLC 450710
• Lembaga Kebudajaan Indonesia, Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. (1827). Verhandelingen, Vol. 6. Bataviaasch: A.C. Nix & Co. OCLC 221461228
• Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. 10-ISBN 0203099850, 13-ISBN 9780203099858; OCLC 65177072

External links

• De VOC site: Dejima history, opperhoofden (Dutch)

Preceded by Isaac Titsingh	VOC Opperhoofden at Dejima 1783-1784	Succeeded by Isaac Titsingh
Preceded by Isaac Titsingh	VOC Opperhoofden at Dejima 1784-1785	Succeeded by Johan Parkeler
Preceded by Johan Parkeler	VOC Opperhoofden at Dejima 1786-1787	Succeeded by Johan Parkeler
Preceded by Johan Parkeler	VOC Opperhoofden at Dejima 1789-1790	Succeeded by Petrus Chassé

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