Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen

Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen
Commander of the Dutch Gold Coast
ad interim
In office
2 July 1832 – 16 March 1833
MonarchWilliam I of the Netherlands
Preceded byJan Tieleman Jacobus Cremer
Succeeded byMartinus Swarte
Personal details
Born(1799-06-22)22 June 1799
Zutphen, Netherlands
Died16 March 1833(1833-03-16) (aged 33)
Elmina, Dutch Gold Coast

Eduard Daniel Leopold baron van Ingen (born 22 June 1799 – 16 March 1833) was a Dutch colonial administrator on the Gold Coast. He was interim commander from 1832 until his death on 16 March 1833.[1]

Biography

Eduard van Ingen was born in Zutphen to baron Antoni Lucas van Ingen, a captain in the Dutch army, and Elisabeth Louise Heckers.

Eduard van Ingen was appointed assistant on the Dutch Gold Coast by royal decree of 8 July 1828. He was promoted to resident on 1 July 1829.[2] Van Ingen became acting commander of the Dutch Gold Coast after the previous acting commander Jan Tieleman Jacobus Cremer died in office on 1 July 1832.[3] Van Ingen took office on 2 July 1832.[4]

After Kwadwo Akyampon died on 18 September 1832, Van Ingen sent the military commandant Reinier Klaassen to Kumasi to inform the Asantehene about his death.[5]

Van Ingen himself also died in office on 16 March 1833, reportedly because of alcoholism.[3] He was buried in the Dutch Cemetery of Elmina.

Notes

  1. ^ Almanak voor de Nederlandsche West-Indische bezittingen, en de kust van Guinea. Jaargang 1860. The Hague: De Gebroeders van Cleef. 1859.
  2. ^ "Soldijregister van burgerlijke- en militaire ambtenaren: Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen". nationaalarchief.nl. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  3. ^ a b Yarak 1990, p. 218.
  4. ^ "Soldijregister van burgerlijke- en militaire ambtenaren: Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen". nationaalarchief.nl. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  5. ^ Yarak 1990, p. 81.

References

  • Yarak, Larry W. (1990). Asante and the Dutch 1744-1873. Oxford: Clarendon Press.