Balthasar Coyett (c.1650
Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan) – 19 September 1725,
Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was a
Dutch-
Swedish
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official in the
Dutch East India Company, serving from 1701 to 1706 as the Governor of
Ambon
Ambon may refer to:
Places
* Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia
** Ambon, Maluku, a city on Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku province
** Governorate of Ambon, a colony of the Dutch East India Company from 1605 to 1796
* Ambon, Morbihan, a co ...
.
He was the son of
Frederick Coyett
Frederick Coyett (), born in Stockholm c. 1615 or 1620, buried in Amsterdam on 17 October 1687, was a Swedish nobleman and the last colonial governor for the Dutch colony of Formosa. He was the first Swede to travel to Japan and China and became ...
, the last
Governor of Formosa
The governor of Formosa ( nl, gouverneur van Formosa; ) was the head of government during the Dutch colonial period in Taiwan, which lasted from 1624 to 1662. Appointed by the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia (modern-day ...
, and Susanna Boudaens (
The Hague 1622- Formosa 1656). Balthasar's son
Frederik Julius Coyett (1680-1736) was also a colonial official.
References
1650s births
1725 deaths
18th-century Dutch colonial governors
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