Gerard Reynst
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Gerard Reynst | |
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Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies | |
| In office 6 November 1614 – 7 December 1615 | |
| Preceded by | Pieter Both |
| Succeeded by | Laurens Reael |
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| Born | 1560s Amsterdam |
| Died | 7 December 1615 Batavia, Dutch East Indies |
Gerard Reynst (1560s – 7 December 1615
Biography
All that is known of his early years is that he was born in Amsterdam, the son of Pieter Rijnst (ca.1510–1574), soap Boiler from the later patrician Reynst family, and Trijn Sijverts. In 1588 he married Margrieta Nicquet and bought a house in Amsterdam from his older brother Reijnst. In 1599, as a merchant and ship-owner, he became a founder-member and administrator of the Nieuwe or Brabantsche Compagnie which, in 1600, became the Vereenighde Company of Amsterdam. This company then in 1602 merged into the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
On the request of his elders in the college of the
He died more than a year after arrival, having caught dysentery so that he could do little there, besides a few minor activities that were only intermittently successful.There is a street named after him in The Hague, Gerard Reijnststraat, which is situated very close to the area which the Allies mistakenly bombed during World War II.
Family
In 1588 in
References
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- ^ a b Molhuysen, Philipp Christiaan; Blok, Petrus Johannes (1918). "Reijnst". Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (in Dutch). Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff. pp. 1147–1148. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
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