Johannes Camphuys

Johannes Camphuys

Portrait of Johannes Campuys
Governor-General
of the Dutch East Indies
In office
11 January 1684 – 24 September 1691
Preceded by Cornelis Speelman
Succeeded by Willem van Outhoorn
Personal details
Born (1634-07-18)18 July 1634
Haarlem, Dutch Republic
Died 18 July 1695(1695-07-18) (aged 61)
Batavia, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia)

Johannes Camphuys (registered as Kamphuis in the Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie) (18 July 1634 – 18 July 1695) was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691.[1] Camphuys was born in Haarlem, in the Republic of the United Netherlands.

Travels

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. Camphuys was three times sent to Japan as Opperhoofd or chief negotiant and officer of the VOC trading post.[2]

Legacy

Camphuys died in Batavia (Jakarta). He is commemorated in the name of a street in the Lombok neighbourhood of Utrecht; and he is also remembered in the name of a street in the Bezuidenhoutquarter of The Hague.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Koopmans, Joop et al. (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands, p. 35., p. 35, at Google Books
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kornicki, Peter F. "European Japanology at the End of the Seventeenth Century," Bulletin of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Vol. 56, No. 3 (1993). pp. 510.

References

Preceded by
Martinus Caesar		 VOC Opperhoofden at Dejima
1671–1672 		Succeeded by
Martinus Caesar
Preceded by
Martinus Caesar		 VOC Opperhoofden at Dejima
1673–1674 		Succeeded by
Martinus Caesar
Preceded by
Martinus Caesar		 VOC Opperhoofden at Dejima
1675–1676 		Succeeded by
Dirck de Haze


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