Isaak Augustijn Rumpf (1673–1723) was a
governor
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of
Dutch Ceylon
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. He was appointed on 5 December 1716 and was Governor until 11 June 1723, when he died in office.
Family life
Rumpf (sometimes spelled ''Rumph'') was the son of the diplomat Christiaan Constantijn Rumpf (1633, The Hague – 1706, Stockholm) and Elisabeth Pierrat de Longueville (1646–1675). He obtained a Doctor of Laws degree at
Leiden University
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and left for the
Indies
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early in 1707. En route, on 26 June 1707 in
Cape Town
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!--tough one to find;-)--> he married Gijsberta Joanna Blesius (born 1686, Cape Town). Isaak and Gijsberta had a daughter Susanna. Gijsberta remarried in 1726 as widow Rumpf with Mr. Everhard Kraayvanger of
Makassar, Macassar, Advocate Fiscaal of India.
"Mr Isaac Augustin Rumpf"
in the ''Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'', Volume XVIII (1903–1905), pp. 326–327.
References
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1673 births
1723 deaths
18th-century Dutch people
Dutch expatriates in Sri Lanka
Governors of Dutch Ceylon
Leiden University alumni
People from The Hague