Joan Paul Schaghen

Joan Paul Schaghen
Acting Governor of Ceylon
In office
19 October 1725 – 16 September 1726
Preceded by Johannes Hertenberg
Succeeded by Petrus Vuyst

Joan Paul Schaghen (variable spellings include Jan/Johan(nes), Paulus, and Schagen) (2 November 1689 in Malacca – ca. 10 December 1746 in Amsterdam) was an acting Governor of Ceylon in 1725 and 1726 and director-general of the council of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia from 1737 to 1741.

Schagen was the son of Sara Alleta van Genegen and Nicolaas Schaghen, Governor of Malacca 1684-1685, Governor of Dutch Bengal (1685-1688), and finally Governor of Amboina from 1691 till his death in 1696. Joan Paul went to study in the Netherlands, where, in 1716 in Velp, he married Cornelia Theodora van Eck.[1] Cornelia and he had a daughter Magdalena Clara Schaghen. After the death of Cornelia, Joan Paul married Susanna Cornelia Breving in July 1723 in Batavia.[2]

In 1722 Schaghen became commander of Galle. The VOC appointed him interim governor of Ceylon on 19 October 1725 which position he held until the arrival of Petrus Vuyst on 16 September 1726.[3] Vuyst eventually fired Schaghen, apparently for his insistence for following the rules, but Schaghen was reinstated by the VOC after Vuyst was dismissed for his misrule in 1729. In the early 1730s Schaghen moved to Batavia. In November 1737 he was unanimously voted to become Director General, after the death of the previous office holder, Wijbrant Blom.[4] At his retirement on the last day of 1641 he received the title of Vice-Admiral and was saluted with 9 canon shots on his departure from the Batavia castle[5] He was succeeded as director-general by Herman van Suchtelen.[6] In January 1742 he left for the Netherlands with his granddaughter Maria Arrewijne. On December 12, 1746 he was buried in the Oude Kerk.[7]

References

  1. ↑ A.A. Vorsterman van Oijen, Can Eck, in Stam- en Wapenboek van Aanzienlijke Nederlandsche Familiën, Wolters Publ, Groningen, 1885, pp 227-230
  2. ↑ Schagen in The Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, vol III, Colombo ,1910 , p. 73
  3. ↑ Cahoon, Ben. "Dutch Governors". Worldstatesmen. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  4. ↑ Generale missiven van gouverneurs-generaal en raden aan heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, Volume 10 (1737-1743), p. 57
  5. ↑ Realia. Register of de Generale Resolutien van het kasteel Batavia, Gualth. Kolff publishers, Leiden, 1882, pp. 377 & 476
  6. ↑ Generale missiven van gouverneurs-generaal en raden aan heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, Volume 10 (1737-1743), p. 776
  7. ↑ Burial registers at the Amsterdam city archives
Government offices
Preceded by
Johannes Hertenberg		 Governor of Ceylon
1725-1726 		Succeeded by
Petrus Vuyst
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