Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck photograph

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck Life story


Rutger Jan, Count Schimmelpenninck, Lord of Nyenhuis, Peckedam and Gellicum, was a Dutch jurist, ambassador and politician who served as Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic from 1805 to 1806. Historian Niek Sas called him the first Dutch liberal politician.

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