The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)

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a personal history of a Dutch virtuoso

Auteur: A.J.P. Raat

Categorie:Geschiedenis & Politiek / Onderwerp: Biografieën & Memoires 149
Cover van het boek 'The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)' van A.J.P. Raat
Uitgever Verloren b.v.
Uitgavejaar 2010
ISBN139789087041519
TaalNederlands
TypeHardcover

Samenvatting

The Life of Joan Gideon Loten, the 'naturalist Governor of Ceylon', details his personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem – to this day a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten’s documents show us a virtuoso: a connoisseur and dilettante in natural philosophy. They give us a unique glimpse of his character and qualities, but also of his asthmatic sufferings and use of opium. Loten’s writings, quoted extensively in this biography, take us from the early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic to the exotic Dutch East Indies and from there to the cosmopolitan London of the latter part of the century.

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