Christiaan Bangeman Huygens
Jonkheer, Jhr. Christaan Diederik Emerens Johan Bangeman Huygens (31 October 1772 in Sint-Oedenrode – 24 March 1857 in Maastricht) was a Dutch people, Dutch diplomat and civil servant, from 1825 to 1832 Envoy (title), Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Washington, DC. Career Bangeman Huygens was the son of Willem Vincent Bangeman, a merchant in the Dutch East India Company, and Catharina Constantia Huygens (whose surname he in 1781 added to that of his father). He became a partisan of the Patriottentijd, Patriot faction, but was nevertheless sent out in 1793 with the last envoy of the Dutch Republic to Denmark, Jacob Fagel as his secretary. After Fagel's dismissal as a result of the Batavian Revolution in 1795, he stayed on as chargé d'affaires. He acted as Minister Plenipotentiary of the Batavian Republic (after his formal appointment in 1796) and subsequently the Kingdom of Holland, at the court of the Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark till 1807. (In ...
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