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Anthony van Diemen (also Antonie, Antonio, Anton, Antonius; 1593 – 19 April 1645) was a Dutch colonial governor.
Anthony van Diemen (born 1593, Culemborg, Neth.—died April 19, 1645, Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was a colonial administrator who, as governor-general of the Dutch East Indian settlements (1636–45), consolidated the Dutch interests in Southeast Asia.
Anthony Meuza Van Diemen (1593-1645) was a Dutch colonial official and merchant. As a governor general of the Dutch East Indies, he did much to develop Batavia and the Indies and to expand Dutch influence in East Asia. Anthony Van Diemen was born at Culemborg, Netherlands.
Van Diemen’s Land, the southeastern Australian island colony that became the commonwealth state of Tasmania. Named for Anthony van Diemen, governor general of the Dutch East Indies, the island was first encountered by Europeans in 1642 and named by Abel J. Tasman, a navigator under van Diemen’s command.
Learn about the life and achievements of Anthony van Diemen, the man who expanded the Dutch East India Company's trade and power in the Moluccas, Ceylon, Malaya, Taiwan, Japan and China. This article is the first part of a two-part biography of Van Diemen, who also sent Abel Tasman to explore Australia and New Zealand.
Anthony van Diemen (1593–1645) was governor-general of the Dutch East Indies from 1636 until 1645. In this capacity, he commissioned a number of voyages of exploration, including that conducted by Abel Tasman in 1642-45, during which he charted the southern coast of Tasmania.
Anthony van Diemen, who knew nothing, of course, of how his name fell so hard from the original honor that Tasman bestowed, died in Batavia on April 19, 1645. He and his name would become one of history’s many footnotes while that of his protégé Tasman lives on, with some justification, in the name of the land he discovered.
