Record ID:
54957551 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • nr 90009655
Heading:
Birth:
  • 17391101
Death:
  • 1801-11
Occupations:
  • Merchants
Used for:
  • Braam Houckgeest, André Everard van, 1739-1801
  • Braam Houckgeest, Andreas Everard van, 1739-1801
  • Houckgeest, André Everard van Braam, 1739-1801
  • Houckgeest, Andreas Everardus van Braam, 1739-1801
  • Van Braam Houckgeest, A. E. (André Everard), 1739-1801
  • Van Braam Houckgeest, Andreas Everardus, 1739-1801
  • Van Braam, André Everard, 1739-1801
  • Van Braam (André Everard), M., 1739-1801
Notes:
  • American Antiquarian Soc. Proceedings, n.s., v. 40 p. 159, etc. ("Van Braam Houckgeest, an early American collector"; André Everard Van Braam Houckgeest; M. Van Braam; Van Braam; b. in Holland Nov. 1, 1739; lived in China 1758-73; in Holland 1773-83; Dutch consul, merchant, and rice cultivator at Charleston, S.C., 1783-88; naturalized as an Amer. citizen in 1784; commercial director for the Dutch East India Co. in China, 1788-94, and its ambassador to the emperor of China 1794-5; settled at his home "China Retreat" in Bristol, Pa. in 1796; returned to Holland in 1801, where he d. Nov. 1801)
  • His Voyage de l'ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales Hollandaises, vers l'empereur de la Chine, dans les années 1794 & 1795, 1797 t.p. (André Everard van Braam Houckgeest, chef de la direction de la Compagne des Indes Orientales Hollandaises a la Chine, & second dans cette ambassade)
  • MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Van Braam Houckgeest, André Everard, 1739-1801; usage: André Everard van Braam Houckgeest; A.E. van Braam Houckgeest; note: works published primarily in French and English; indexed in Amer. refs. under surname Van Braam Houckgeest)
  • NUC pre-1956 (Braam Houckgeest, Andreas Everard van, 1739-1801)
  • The first VBH, c1993- t.p. (Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest) foreword (prior to his marriage in 1763, he added the name Houckgeest to his birthright surname of van Braam)
  • Wikipedia 2 Feb. 2015 (Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest (1 November 1739 in Werkhoven–8 July 1801 in Amsterdam), Dutch-American merchant who is mostly known for his participation in the last Dutch embassy to China under the tributary system. Upon the embassy's return to Guangzhou in March 1795, van Braam was unable to find a ship bound for the Netherlands and chose to board a ship to Philadelphia, where he arrived in 1796. Van Braam's arrival in the city attracted a lot of attention and he published an account of his journey. In 1798, he decided to leave the United States for unknown reasons, and after short stays in Germany and England, he bought a small property in Amsterdam, where he died in July 1801.)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)309743
Cataloguing source:
  • MWA eng rda MWA DLC OCoLC VJTL