Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan, Count van Zuylen van Nijevelt (19 August 1819 – 1 July 1894) was a conservative Dutch

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. From 1855 till 1860 he served as Minister Resident in Istanbul, during which time he offered

The Union Church of Istanbul The Union Church of Istanbul is an interdenominational, international, protestant, evangelical church, meeting since 1857 in the Dutch Chapel, which is located on the grounds of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Istanbul (formerly the Emb ...

to use the Dutch Chapel. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands (chairman of the Council of Ministers) from 1866 to 1868. He also served as minister of Foreign Affairs from 1860 to 1861, and again from 1866 tot 1868. He married in Scotland and had three sons and two daughters. A member of the prominent Rotterdam patrician ('' regenten'') family of Van Zuylen van Nijevelt, he was a son of

Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1 July 1782 in Kampen – 25 January 1825 in Utrecht) was a Dutch count and baron who served as a general in the French and Dutch armies during the Napoleonic era and later. He was present at the Battle ...

, a Dutch general who was present at the

Battle of Waterloo The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium). A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armie ...

, among others.

Honours

* 1849: Officer in the

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.Handelsblad (Het) 03-05-1849

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* 1819 births 1894 deaths Prime Ministers of the Netherlands Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Independent politicians in the Netherlands 19th-century Dutch diplomats Dutch members of the Dutch Reformed Church People from Luxembourg City Counts Van Zuylen van Nijevelt {{Netherlands-politician-stub

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