Johannes Hertenberg (15 April 1668 in

Oudkarspel Oudkarspel is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is located in the municipality of Dijk en Waard, north of Noord-Scharwoude. History The village was first mentioned in 1094 as Aldenkercha. The current name means "old parish" ...

– 19 October 1725 in

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo m ...

) was the 17th commander of Dutch Malabar from 1716 to 1723 and the 19th Dutch Governor of Ceylon from 1723 until his death. In 1687, Hertenberg sailed to the Dutch East Indies in the ship ''De Groote Vischerij'' as Third Surgeon. He worked his way up to upper-merchant in Makassar by 1712. Between June and September 1712 he was asked to be interim Governor of Makassar, following the death of Gerrit van Toll and until the arrival of his successor Joannes Sipman. He returned to Batavia in August 1714 as upper-merchant. In November of that year he was sent to Ceylon to become commander of

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. In September 1716 he became commander of Malabar, in which position he generally had a good relationship with the

Zamorin of Calicut The Samoothiri (Anglicised as Zamorin; Malayalam: , Arabic: ''Sāmuri'', Portuguese: ''Samorim'', Dutch: ''Samorijn'', Chinese: ''Shamitihsi''Ma Huan's Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' 433 Translated and Edited ...

. He was appointed Governor of Ceylon at the death of Isaak Augustyn Rumpf in June 1723. Jacob de Jong became commander of Malabar and Hertenberg took office in

on 12 January 1724. He seemed to have good relations with the local ruler, the

King of Kandy The Kandyan monarchs ruled the Kingdom of Kandy on the island of Sri Lanka from 1469 to 1815. The Kingdom was first established by Senasammata Vikramabahu, a royal from the Kingdom of Kotte, when he led the secession of the Kande uda pas rata (� ...

, but died within two years in office on 19 October 1725.Generale missiven van gouverneurs-generaal en raden aan heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie
Volumes 6-8, Martinus Nijhoff publishers, The Hague

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hertenberg, Johannes 1668 births 1725 deaths 18th-century Dutch people Dutch expatriates in Sri Lanka Governors of Dutch Ceylon People from Langedijk