COEN, JAN PIETERSZOON:
Governor-general of Java, and founder of the Dutch colonial
system; born at Hoorn, Holland, Jan. 8, 1587; died in 1629. He gained
his early commercial experience with the firm of Piscatori in Rome, went to
India on a commercial exploration in 1607, and made a second voyage
with two ships in 1612. He was appointed director-general of the Indian
trade in 1613. As governor-general of Java, he destroyed (1619) the
native town of Jacatra, and founded Batavia, the capital of the Dutch
East Indies. He died childless in 1629, and his large possessions went
for the benefit of orphans in his native town of Hoorn, subject to a
bequest in favor of members of his family, which seems to have been some time
later successfully claimed.
Coen is said to have been of
Jewish descent. The biographies, while printing voluminous details of
his career as governor-general, are singularly reticent in regard to his
parentage. The name or occupation of his father is not found, though
one would have expected these facts to be recorded of so eminent a man.
Perhaps as a convert he endeavored to conceal them. His portrait in
Valentyn's "History of Java" and in Müller's "Golden Age" might well be
that of a Jew. Abbing's "History of Hoorn" gives chiefly negative
evidence on the subject of Coen's Jewish connection. The question of his
extraction must be left undecided.
Bibliography:
* International Cyclopedia;
* A. Winkler Prins, Geïllustreerde Encyclopedie;
* Jew. Chron. Oct. 20, 1899, p. 21.
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From: ajeg <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [proletar] Dua Muka Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Dua muka..
Mirip pantat dengan belahan kiri &
kanan itu kan?
ehe..
--- Batara Hutagalung <batara44rh@...> wrote:
> Dua Muka
> Jan Pieterszoon Coen
>
> Oleh Batara R. Hutagalung
> Ketua Komite Utang Kehormatan Belanda (KUKB)
>
> Selama lebih dari seratus tahun, sejak tahun 1893, Jan Pieterszoon
> Coen, mantan Gubernur Jenderal Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie
> (VOC) “berdiri� dengan megah dan tenang di kota kelahirannya,
> Hoorn, di Belanda bagian utara. Namun sejak enam bulan belakangan,
> terutama dua minggu terakhir ini, “ketenangannya� sangat terusik.
>
> Terusiknya ketenangan tersebut diawali dengan robohnya secara
> misterius patung JP Coen nan megah tersebut dari beton penyangganya
> pada 16 Agustus 2011, sehari sebelum bangsa Indonesia memperingati
> proklamasi kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia pada 17 Agustus 2011. Dan
> kurang dari satu bulan sebelum putusan pengadilan sipil di Den Haag,
> pada 14 September 2011, yang memenangkan gugatan 9 janda dan satu
> korban selamat peristiwa pembantaian penduduk sipil di Rawagede,
> terhadap pemerintah Belanda.
>
> Selengkapnyat:
> http://batarahutagalung.blogspot.com/2012/03/dua-muka-jan-pieterszoon-coen.html
>
>
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