Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen

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Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen
Commander of the Dutch Gold Coast
In office
1 July 1832 – 16 March 1833
MonarchWilliam I of the Netherlands
Preceded byJan Tieleman Jacobus Cremer
Succeeded byMartinus Swarte
Personal details
Born(1798-06-21)21 June 1798
Zutphen, Netherlands
Died16 March 1833(1833-03-16) (aged 34)
Elmina, Dutch Gold Coast

Eduard Daniel Leopold baron van Ingen (21 June 1798 – 16 March 1833) was a Dutch colonial administrator on the Gold Coast. He was interim commander from 1832 until his death on 16 March 1833.[1]

Biography[]

Eduard van Ingen was born in Zutphen to baron Antoni Lucas van Ingen, a captain in the Dutch army, and Elisabeth Louise Heckers.

Eduard van Ingen became acting commander of the Dutch Gold Coast after the previous acting commander Jan Tieleman Jacobus Cremer died in office on 1 July 1832.[2]

After Kwadwo Akyampon died on 18 September 1832, Van Ingen sent the military commandant Reinier Klaassen to Kumasi to inform the Asantehene about his death.[3]

Van Ingen himself also died in office on 16 March 1833, reportedly because of alcoholism.[2] He was buried in the Dutch Cemetery of Elmina.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Almanak voor de Nederlandsche West-Indische bezittingen, en de kust van Guinea. Jaargang 1860. The Hague: De Gebroeders van Cleef. 1859.
  2. ^ a b Yarak 1990, p. 218.
  3. ^ Yarak 1990, p. 81.

References[]

  • Yarak, Larry W. (1990). Asante and the Dutch 1744-1873. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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