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Adriana Johanna Bake (1724–1787) was the wife of the
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies The governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (, ) represented Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies between 1610 and Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia in 1949. Occupied by Japanese forces between 1942 and 1945, followed by the ...
and an influential figure in the
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colony of Batavia. Adriana Bake was born to
David Johan Bake David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...
(1689–1738), governor of Amboina, and Ida Dudde (1691–1766). She married commander Anthonij Guldenarm (1701–1743), and in 1743
Petrus Albertus van der Parra Petrus Albertus van der Parra (29 September 1714 – 28 December 1775) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1761 to 1775. Biography Petrus Albertus van der Parra was born in Colombo, the son of a Secretary to the government of Ceyl ...
(1714–1775), governor general of Batavia from 1755 to 1775. Adriana Bake was the first governor's wife not born in the Netherlands, and in the position, she became the first hostess of
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in 1763, and known as the hostess of many spectacular parties with theater, dance and illuminations and festivals. Her hospitality, simple taste and pious nature, not common in contemporary colonial society, were admired: she financed translations of the Bible, converted her slaves and freed them in her will. Adriana Bake was depicted as an ideal wife in the contemporary Dutch colony and her family life as a role model for other colonial families. She was the foster mother of a large network of East Indies foster children, many of whom were later to become power holders in the Dutch East Indies.


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1724 births 1787 deaths 18th-century Dutch East Indies people People from Ambon, Maluku {{Netherlands-bio-stub