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Albert Coenraadsz Burgh (1593 – 24 December 1647) was a Dutch physician who was mayor of
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and a councillor in the
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.


Biography

Burgh was born into a rich brewer's family. He studied medicine in
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in 1614 and became a doctor in 1618 in Amsterdam. In the same year, after Johan van Oldenbarnevelts Fall and beheading, the
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Burgh was appointed councilor by Reynier Pauw to replace the pro- Remonstrant Jacob Dircksz de Graeff in the Amsterdam city council. He changed his view within a couple of years, paying a fine for the famous Dutch poet Vondel. Vondel had gotten into trouble because of his play '' Palamedes'', in which he was recalling the beheading of Oldenbarneveldt. Around 1624, Burgh became one of the managers of the
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and owned land on the New Jersey side opposite the river Delaware. In 1632, Albert Burgh sold his land in
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, Albany, to the main investor Kiliaen van Rensselaer. At the solemn entry of Maria de Medici into Amsterdam in 1638, he and the
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and
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, Andries Bicker, Pieter Hasselaer, Antonie Oetgens van Waveren and Abraham Boom welcomed her in the name of the city's government. Burgh offered De Medici a meal with
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, in those days very exotic and hardly known to Europeans. He sold her a famous silver
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, captured in 1629 by Piet Hein in
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. In 1644 he became a manager of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. During his lifetime he visited
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twice (1629 and 1647), in order to improve trade relations. Both times he entered the country in
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. Burgh died on Christmas Eve in
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. The corpse was returned to Amsterdam. Dirck Tulp, the son of the famous surgeon Nicolaes Tulp, who had accompanied him on his trip to Russia, married his daughter. In 1652,
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on the Gold Coast was named after him.Het kasteel van Elmina: in het spoor van de Nederlandse slavenhandel in Afrika door Marcel van Engelen (2013)
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Offspring

One of Albert Burgh's grandsons, also named Albert Burgh, was a
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in
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and argued with his former teacher
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in a couple of curious and famous letters; another grandson of Albert Burgh was the mayor of Amsterdam Coenraad van Beuningen.


References


Sources

* Elias, J.E. (1903–1905, reprint 1963) ''De vroedschap van Amsterdam 1578-1795'', two volumes.
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External links


The governors of the civic guard, including Albert C. Burgh

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They are not the same Albert Burgh! {{DEFAULTSORT:Burgh, Albert 1593 births 1647 deaths 17th-century Dutch physicians Mayors of Amsterdam Muiderkring Administrators of the Dutch West India Company Physicians from Amsterdam Remonstrants Dutch West India Company people from Amsterdam