Isaac Titsingh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isaac Titsingh

Dutch diplomat

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1745

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1812

Profession: writer, diplomat, historian, surgeon, coin collecting

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Isaac Titsingh FRS (c.
January 1745 in Amsterdam – 2 February 1812 in Paris) was a Dutch scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador.During a long career in East Asia, Titsingh was a senior official of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC)).
He represented the European trading company in exclusive official contact with Tokugawa Japan, traveling to Edo twice for audiences with the shogun and other high bakufu officials.
He was the Dutch and VOC governor general in Chinsura, Bengal.
Titsingh worked with his counterpart, Charles Cornwallis, who was governor general of the British East India Company.
In 1795, Titsingh represented Dutch and VOC interests in China, where his reception at the court of the Qing Qianlong Emperor stood in stark contrast to the rebuff suffered by Britain's ambassador George Macartney in 1793, just prior to celebrations of Qianlong’s sixty-year reign.
In China, Titsingh effectively functioned as ambassador for his country at the same time as he represented the Dutch East India Company as a trade representative.