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Nicolaes Witsen

1641 - 1717

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Nicolaes Witsen (8 May 1641 – 10 August 1717; Dutch: Nicolaas Witsen) was a Dutch statesman who was mayor of Amsterdam thirteen times, between 1682 and 1706. In 1693, he became administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In 1689, he was extraordinary-ambassador to the English court and became Fellow of the Royal Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolaes Witsen has received more than 72,353 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nicolaes Witsen is the 9,941st most popular politician (up from 10,536th in 2019), the 448th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 472nd in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nicolaes Witsen ranks 9,941 out of 19,576. Before him are Margrethe Vestager, Álvaro Noboa, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Eddie Fenech Adami, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and Kujō Yoritsugu. After him are Nasser Al-Sabah, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, Flavio Cotti, and Carlos Westendorp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1641, Nicolaes Witsen ranks 10. Before him are Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Regnier de Graaf, Titus van Rijn, Nehemiah Grew, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, and François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois. After him are Menno van Coehoorn, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Dositheus II of Jerusalem, and Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland. Among people deceased in 1717, Nicolaes Witsen ranks 8. Before him are Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, Samuel Bellamy, Jeanne Guyon, Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Anna Leszczyńska, and Magnus Stenbock. After him are Jean Jouvenet, Abraham Darby I, and Abdul Aziz Hotak.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Nicolaes Witsen ranks 448 out of 1,646. Before him are Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), Dick Nanninga (1949), Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), and Johannes Kleiman (1896). After him are Gerard Philips (1858), Princess Marie of the Netherlands (1841), Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734), Menno van Coehoorn (1641), Jan Luyken (1649), and Eduard van Beinum (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Nicolaes Witsen ranks 73. Before him are Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634), Dirk Jan de Geer (1870), Louis Beel (1902), Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), and Dirk I, Count of Holland (875). After him are James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649), Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885), Dirk Stikker (1897), Jan Gies (1905), Jelle Zijlstra (1918), and Roméo Dallaire (1946).

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