Zacharias (Wagenaer) Wagner (1614 - 1668)

Born 10 May 1614 in Dresdner Neustadt [Dresden, Free State of Saxony, Germany]

Died 12 Oct 1668 at age 54 in Amsterdam Resting place, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

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Preceded by 1st Commander Jan van Riebeeck

Zacharias Wagenaer 2nd Commander of the Dutch Cape Colony 6 May 1662 – 27 September 1666

Succeeded by 3rd Commander Cornelis van Quaelberg

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Biography

Zacharias (Wagenaer) Wagner is Notable.

1614 Birth

Born: 10 May 1614 ^{[citation needed]}

1633 Travels

Travels (1633) from Dresden via Hamburg to Amsterdam working for famed Dutch cartographer, atlas maker & publisher Willem Blaeu ... ^{[citation needed]}

1634 Dutch West India Company

Enlists (1634) as soldier of Dutch West India Company (WIC) to serve in New Holland [Dutch Brazil]; 3 years later, hired as writer by colony’s newly-arrived governor, Count John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen; in Recife keeps diary with 109 water-colour drawings of curious fish, strange birds, useful & harmful animals, lovely tasty fruit & nasty, poisonous worms & big, brown or black people, published as Thier-Buch - pictures include Smooth Hammerhead, Cutlassfish, slender filefish, Serranidae & Cirripedia ... ^{[citation needed]}

1641 Joins VOC

Leaves Dutch Brazil (1641) travelling back to Dresden; after 4 months, returns to Netherlands joining VOC ... Sails (1642) for Indies as midshipman; assistant for governors Antonie van Diemen & Cornelis van der Lijn (1643); under-merchant (1646) & merchant (1651); 3 times member of Court of Justice at Batavia; Goes on mission to Canton, China (1653) to re-open trade relations, which prove fruitless due to civil war after fall of Ming Dynasty .. ^[1]

1648 Marriage

Spouse(s): Anna Auxbrebis x 1648 Batavia ^{[citation needed]}

1657 Nagasaki

Opperhoofd (1657) at small island in Nagasaki bay on Japanese island of Kyushu, Dejima; travels to capital Edo [Tokyo] in tributary mission & escapes from burning city [see the profile of Tokugawa-4] (fire starting 2 March 1657) - drawing from his hand in Edo-Tokyo Museum; as one of 1st opperhoofden, orders dinner service, consisting of 200 pieces (1659); designs Japanese porcelain according to European tastes white & blue with many flowers; serves twice as opperhoofd alternating with Joan Boucheljon ^[1]:

• Joan Bouchelion: 23 October 1655-1 November 1656

• Zacharias Wagener: 1 November 1656-27 October 1657

• Joan Bouchelion: 27 October1657 – 23 October1658

• Zacharias Wagener: 22 October 1658 – 4 November1659

• Joan Bouchelion: 4 November 1659-26 October1660 ...

1660 Peace Negotiations with Sultan of Makassar

Involved in peace negotiations with sultan of Makassar (1660) - port has about 2000 Portuguese traders & for years threatens Dutch spice trade on the Moluccas; head of Public Works in Batavia (1661) ... ^[1]

1662 Cape of Good Hope

Goes to Cape of Good Hope (1662) with wife, step-daughter, 5 slaves & 2 horses; succeeeds [[Van Riebeeck-1|Jan van Riebeeck] as governor (6 May); asks Batavia to send pottery from Persia (December 1663); negotiates with 'Hottentots' about cattle for Company; abstains from further expeditions pursuing policy to refrain from interfering in tribal disputes, keeping strictly neutral; appoints Georg Friedrich Wreede - author of compendium of Dutch & Hottentot language as commander in Mauritius; procures & supervises iconic baptism (1662) & marriage of Cape's 1st indigene Krotoa aka Eva Meerhoff (c. 1643-1674); one of 5 people laying foundation of Castle of Good Hope (started August 1665); constructs waterbasin, supplying ships with fresh water, hospital, school & church; wife Maria Auxbrebis (dies 1666) (married 1648) ... ^[1]

This is one of the earliest journal entries under his tenure: May 14th. [1662] —Partly rowing and partly sailing, the wind varying from S. to N.W., the Musquitie departed for Robben Island. Obatained from the Cochoquas 3 cattle and 5 sheep, for copper and tobacco. The Goringhaiquas or Caepmen reported that a delegate from the Chuinonquas had arrived at their krall, sent by the King Sousoa in order to greet the new “Sourie” or Great Chief, namely, the Commander, and see whether the latter had as much copper tobacco and beads as his predecessor; if that were the case he and his people would come down with a large troop of cattle. (Precis, Journal) [Delia Robertson] ^[2]

1666 Return to Batavia

Resigns (27 September 1666) returning to Batavia with step-daughter Maria Verburg; frees (1666) Japanese slave Anthonij de Later van Japan & his concubine Annica / Anieka van Bengale & their 2 children Abraham & Elisabeth; sells (1666) Indian slaves (Louis van Bengale, Willem van Bengale) ... ^[1]

1666 Mataram

With presents visits the susuhunan of Mataram, who refuses to trade with VOC - although knowledge of Malay or Javanese language is not very good, mission is fruitless; visits Japara afterwards ... ^[1]

1667 Return to Amsterdam

Following year sails back to Amsterdam as vice-admiral & in ill health; buried (16 October 1668) in Old Church ... ^[1]

German excerpt of diary is translated into English (published 1704 &1732). [Mansell Upham] ^[1]

1668 Death

12 October 1668: Death of Cape of Good Hope's 2nd VOC Commander Zacharias Wagner / Wagenaar / Wagenaer / Wagener (1614-1668 - aged 54) alias "Der Donnerman" (from Dresdner Neustadt [Dresden, Free State of Saxony, Germany]) - in 35 years travels over 4 continents; clerk, illustrator, merchant, member of Court of Justice, opperhoofd of Deshima [Dejima, Nagasaki, Japan] & only German commander of Cape colony; Born Dresdner Neustadt (10 May 1614); son of Saxonian judge & painter. Dies Amsterdam (12 October 1668) ... ^[1]

1668 Burial in Old Church, Amsterdam

16 October 1668: Burial in the Old Church (Oude Kerk), Amsterdam of Cape of Good Hope's 2nd VOC commander the Dresden-born Zacharias Wagenaer [Wagner] (1614-1668) [Mansell Upham] ^[3]

Sources

• Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Wagenaer
• First Fifty Years - collating Cape of Good Hope records : [Mansell Upham] https://www.facebook.com/FirstFiftyYearsProject/posts/1198782610138481?pnref=story
• Zacharias Wagenaer. (2015, June 21). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:30, October 13, 2015, from (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zacharias_Wagenaer&oldid=668006834) Added by Ronel Olivier Oct 14, 2015.

1. [1] Schoeman, K. (2006) Kinders van die Kompanjie, p. 164.
2. [2] http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/i/imariyaki.htm
3. [3] Volker, T. (1971) Porcelain and the Dutch East India Company as recorded in the Dagh-registers of the Batavia castle, those of Hirado and Deshima and other contemporary papers 1602-1682, p. 126-127, 132-137. Leiden. E.J. Brill.
4. [4] Schoeman, K. (2006) Kinders van die Kompanjie, p. 165.
5. [5] Schoeman, K. (2006) Kinders van die Kompanjie, p. 167.
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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Source: First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: Oct 12, 2015 at 11:01 am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Oct 19, 2015.
2. ↑ Source: First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: May 14, 2016 at 8:58 am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt May 14, 2016.
3. ↑ Source: First Fifty Years - Project collating Cape of Good Hope records Facebook Community Page: Oct 16, 2015 at 3:42 am Seen and added by Philip van der Walt Oct 19, 2015.