Maximiliaan le Maire (February 28, 1606 in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

– c. 1654 in prob.

Batavia Batavia may refer to: Historical places * Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands * Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...

) was a merchant/trader and official of the

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...

(''Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie'' or VOC).Historigraphical Institute (Shiryō hensan-jo), University of Tokyo
"Diary of Maximiliaen Le Maire"
retrieved 2013-2-4.

Early life

Maximilaan was one of the surviving 13 or 14 children of Isaac le Maire, in 1602 one of the founders of the

or "VOC", and Maria Walraven, and was a brother of the explorer and circumnavigator

Jacob le Maire Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 22 December 1616) was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the earth in 1615 and 1616. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honour, though not without controver ...

(1585-1616). He grew up in

Egmond aan den Hoef Egmond aan den Hoef () is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, and lies about west of Alkmaar. Until 2001, Egmond aan den Hoef was part of the municipality of Egmond. The village was firs ...

Career

Le Maire served for the VOC starting around 1630 in Malabar followed by

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and

Hirado is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The part historically named Hirado is located on Hirado Island. With recent mergers, the city's boundaries have expanded, and Hirado now occupies parts of the main island of Kyushu. The component ...

. He was the

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

Opperhoofd at Dejima from 14 February 1641 to 30 October 1641. He was the first "new" chief trader at the island outpost. From 1643 to 1644 he was Governor of Formosa (Taiwan), where a polder was named after him. He returned home, and in 1647 remarried, in

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, Geertruij van Mierop. For a couple of years, he lived in Amsterdam, but in 1650 he left again for Batavia with his wife. He died after a few years; it is not known exactly where and when. His widow went back to the Netherlands and in September 1656 remarried

Cornelis van der Lijn Cornelis van der Lijn (1608 – 27 July 1679) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1646 until 1650. Early career Van der Lijn was born in Alkmaar, possibly in 1608. He went, in 1627, as assistant ( nl, assistent) to Batavia, Dutch E ...

, previously a governor of the Indies and from 1668

burgomaster Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, literally "master of the town, master of the borough, master of the fortress, master of the citizens") is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chie ...

of Alkmaar.J.H. de Sitter
Genealogische aanteekeningen over de familie De Sitter
''De Navorscher'' 52, p. 579, Utrecht, 1902

References

External links

"Deshima ''Opperhoofden'' at WorldStatesmen.org
1590s births 1650s deaths Businesspeople from Amsterdam Colonial governors of Dutch Formosa Dutch expatriates in Japan Dutch chiefs of factory in Japan {{Netherlands-bio-stub

Early life

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