Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller

Businessman, diplomat, world traveller, publicist

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1859

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 11-Aug-1941

Profession: diplomat, historian, geographer, explorer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller

  • Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas "Henk" Muller, GON, RNL, FRGS (2 April 1859 – 11 August 1941) was a Dutch businessman, diplomat, explorer, publicist, and philanthropist.
  • He was a son of Hendrik Muller Sz., a Rotterdam-based Dutch businessman and politician, and Marie Cornelie van Rijckevorsel, member of another prominent Rotterdam based business family. Muller started his career as a businessman, trading with East and West Africa.
  • In his mid-twenties he travelled to Zanzibar, Mozambique, and South Africa for business purposes, but showed himself a keen ethnographer as well, collecting ethnographic artefacts and writing reports about the societies and people he encountered on his way.
  • In 1890, Muller retired from business for personal reasons, and went to Germany to study ethnography and geography.
  • He graduated with a PhD dissertation four years later. In 1896 he was first appointed consul and later consul general for the Orange Free State.
  • Muller held this position all through the Second Boer War and his high-profile performance as European representative for this Boer republic won him considerable fame and notoriety, which lasted all his life.
  • After the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed in 1902 Muller retired to a life of travelling and writing for some years, making Muller a household name with his travel books.
  • In 1919 the Dutch government appointed him envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Romania, and later to Czechoslovakia, where he retired in 1932.
  • As diplomat Muller strongly promoted Dutch business interests, especially in oil and electrotechnics. Muller was a prolific writer.
  • Over the course of his life he published well over two hundred articles, brochures, and books about his travels through the world, about South Africa and the Boers, and about Dutch foreign policy and diplomacy, apart from a range of other subjects.
  • Muller gathered a large fortune with well appointed private investments.
  • He bequeathed his considerable wealth to a private fund in support of academic research and cultural heritage.

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