Eduard Daniel Leopold

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van Ingen (born 22 June 1799 – 16 March 1833) was a Dutch colonial administrator on the

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. He was interim commander from 1832 until his death on 16 March 1833.

Biography

Eduard van Ingen was born in

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Antoni Lucas van Ingen, a captain in the

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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. Van Ingen became acting commander of the

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after the previous acting commander Jan Tieleman Jacobus Cremer died in office on 1 July 1832. Van Ingen took office on 2 July 1832. After Kwadwo Akyampon died on 18 September 1832, Van Ingen sent the military commandant Reinier Klaassen to

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to inform the

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingen, Eduard Daniel Leopold van 1799 births 1833 deaths Colonial governors of the Dutch Gold Coast