Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen
{{Short description|Dutch colonial administrator}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen
|image =
|office = Commander of the Dutch Gold Coast
|status = ad interim
|monarch = William I of the Netherlands
|term_start = 2 July 1832
|term_end = 16 March 1833
|predecessor = Jan Tieleman Jacobus Cremer
|successor = Martinus Swarte
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1799|6|22}}
|birth_place = Zutphen, Netherlands
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1833|3|16|1799|6|22}}
|death_place = Elmina, Dutch Gold Coast
|party =
|spouse =
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Eduard Daniel Leopold baron van Ingen (born 22 June 1799 – 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.{{cite book |author= |title=Almanak voor de Nederlandsche West-Indische bezittingen, en de kust van Guinea. Jaargang 1860 |url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_alm009186001_01/_alm009186001_01_0044.php |publisher=De Gebroeders van Cleef |location=The Hague |date=1859 }}
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 was appointed assistant on the Dutch Gold Coast by royal decree of 8 July 1828. He was promoted to resident on 1 July 1829.{{cite web |url=https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/2.10.01/invnr/4031/file/NL-HaNA_2.10.01_4031_0164 |title=Soldijregister van burgerlijke- en militaire ambtenaren: Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen |date= |website=nationaalarchief.nl |access-date=20 January 2023 }} 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.{{sfn|Yarak|1990|p=218}} Van Ingen took office on 2 July 1832.{{cite web |url=https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/2.10.01/invnr/4031/file/NL-HaNA_2.10.01_4031_0180 |title=Soldijregister van burgerlijke- en militaire ambtenaren: Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen |date= |website=nationaalarchief.nl |access-date=20 January 2023 }}
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.{{sfn|Yarak|1990|p=81}}
Van Ingen himself also died in office on 16 March 1833, reportedly because of alcoholism.{{sfn|Yarak|1990|p=218}} He was buried in the Dutch Cemetery of Elmina.
Notes
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References
- {{cite book | last=Yarak | first=Larry W. | title=Asante and the Dutch 1744-1873 | publisher=Clarendon Press | year=1990 | location=Oxford }}
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