A meeting of Japan, China, and the West, by Shiba Kōkan.
Hendrik Caspar Romberg (bapt. 11 October 1744 - 15 April 1793)[1] was a Dutch bookkeeper, merchant-trader and
VOC Opperhoofd in Japan.
Life
Hendrik Caspar Romberg was the son of Zacharias Romberg, a bookprinter/seller on
Spui in Amsterdam.[2] Hendrik was baptized not in the opposite Lutheran church, but at home.[3] In 1763 he traveled to Batavia in East Asia with the
Dutch East Indies Company (or Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch). Ten years later he was appointed in
Deshima as bookkeeper. Romberg spent more than ten years in Japan. It seems he was good-looking had an affair with a Japanese prostitute.[4]
He was the
Opperhoofd, head of VOC trading post, during four discrete periods:
In the off-years, he spent time in
Batavia, which was at that time the VOC headquarters in the East Indies.[10] The registers also listed him as chief warehouseman and paymaster.[11]
Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo (東京大学史料編纂所, Tokyo daigaku shiryō hensan-jo). (1963). Historical documents relating to Japan in foreign countries: an inventory of microfilm acquisitions in the library of the Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo.OCLC 450710
Lembaga Kebudajaan Indonesia, Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. (1827).
Verhandelingen, Vol. 6. Bataviaasch: A.C. Nix & Co.
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