- Cornelis van Nijenrode
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Cornelis van Nijenro(o)de, also Cornelis van Nieuwroode (b. Naarden - d. Dejima, January 1633) was Governor of the VOC-trading post in Hirado, Japan from 1623 to 1633.
Cornelis arrived in Asia in 1607. He filled several posts at Dutch East India Company-trading post in Siam. In 1622 he took part in an expedition, sent from Formosa, to the coast of China.
In Japan Cornelis had a daughter, Cornelia, with a local Japanese woman named Surishia.
Cornelis died in 1633, just before he was about to leave for Batavia.
Categories:- 1633 deaths
- Dutch chiefs of factory in Japan
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