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Eduard Grandisson

Eduard Grandisson

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Eduard Grandisson (1798 – 26 April 1879) was a colonial administrator in the Dutch East Indies, who served as opperhoofd of the trading post of Dejima in the harbour of Nagasaki between 1838 and 1842.

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Biography

Eduard Grandisson was born to Ma Isa and adopted at a young age by Adriaan Wilbert Jorisen and Frederica Florentina Foeijt.[1][2] It is likely his adoptive parents named him after the character of the same name in the popular Dutch children's novel of the day, De kleine Grandisson, of de gehoorzaame zoon by Maria Geertruid de Cambon-van der Werken.[3]

Grandisson joined the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies, becoming adjunct procurator fiscal in Batavia,[4] and later secretary of the residency of Palembang.[5]

He married Johanna Carolina Wiltenaer in 1823.[6] After her death in June 1838,[7] he accepted the position of opperhoofd of the trading post of Dejima in Japan, where he succeeded Johannes Erdewin Niemann [ja]. He served until 1842 and returned to the Dutch East Indies after. He was pensioned two years later and settled as a retired colonial administrator in Banten, where he founded a tea plantation with the name Nipon.[8][9][10]

He died in Serang, Banten on 26 April 1879.[6]

Personal life

With Johanna Carolina Wiltenaer he had one daughter that survived infancy, Louise Hermenie Cornelie Grandisson (1831–1860). A son, Johan Eduard Grandisson (1835–1836), died within ten months after his birth. On 12 May 1873, Eduard Grandisson married Augustina Martha Tjoa Nio.[6]


Notes

  1. "Akte van adoptie door het echtpaar Adriaan Wilbert Jorisen en Frederica Florentina Foeijt van Eduard Grandisson, zoon van Ma Isa, opgesteld door notaris Huibert Ketelaar". cbgverzamelingen.nl. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  2. "Registratie Europeanen op Java en Madoera 1819". iisg.nl. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  3. de Cambon-van der Werken, Maria Geertruid (1782). De kleine Grandisson, of de gehoorzaame zoon. The Hague: H. H. van Drecht.
  4. Staatsalmanak voor den jare 1822. The Hague and Amsterdam: Gebroeders van Cleef. 1822.
  5. "Burgerlijke stand Nederlands-Indië". roosjeroos.nl. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  6. "Javasche Courant". 13 June 1838. Retrieved 10 October 2020. Na eene gelukkige echtvereeniging van 15 jaren, overleed op heden tot mijne en harer bejaarde moeder innigste droefheid, na een langdurig lijden, mijne geliefde echtgenoot Johanna Carolina Wiltenaer, in den jeugdigen ouderdom van ruim 31 jaren, mij nalatende een eenig kind, Welke dezen gevoeligen slag reeds mede heeft kunnen beseffen. Batavia, E. Grandisson
  7. "Binnenland". Nieuwe Rotterdamsche courant: staats-, handels-, nieuws- en advertentieblad. 22 March 1844. Retrieved 10 October 2020. Eervol uit 's lands dienst ontslagen de ambtenaar E. Grandisson
  8. "Civiel Departement". Java-bode: nieuws, handels- en advertentieblad voor Nederlandsch-Indie. 26 April 1854. Retrieved 10 October 2020. Benoemd tot leden der subcommissie van weldadigheid: in de residentie Bantam, E. Grandisson, gepensioneerd ambtenaar
  9. Van der Chijs 1903, pp. 43–50.

References

  • Van der Chijs, J.A. (1903). Geschiedenis van de gouvernements thee-cultuur op Java. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij. hdl:1887.1/item:961351.

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