Albert Burgh

Albert Coenraadsz Burgh (* 1593 probably in Amsterdam, † December 24, 1647 in Novgorod ) was a physician and Mayor of Amsterdam in the era of the Golden Age of the Netherlands. He was also in the period after Johan van Oldenbarnevelt murder of a Remonstrant the leaders of the city of Amsterdam.

Biography

Pittsburgh came from the wealthy patrician and Brewer Family Pittsburgh, and studied medicine at the University of Leiden. Subsequently, he was appointed to the Amsterdam town doctor.

After Johan van Oldenbarnevelt fall Burgh was recorded by Reinier Pauw as Erstatz for Remonstrant minded Jacob de Graeff Dircksz as alderman in the Amsterdam city government. In 1631 he traveled as an envoy of the Dutch States-General to Moscow to negotiate with Tsar Michael I on a trade agreement that should secure the Dutch monopoly of the grain trade, - this first attempt failed, however. Only one delivery over 2,000 muskets could sway the Russian Tsar in his mind. In the years 1638 and 1643 Pittsburgh became mayor, and in his first year in office he was called, together with Andries Bicker the French queen mother Marie de Medici in the city welcome.

At the end of its life was Albert Burgh councilor of the States of Holland and West Friesland, President of the Dutch West India Company (WIC ), Drost of Muiden and councilor of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. When Pittsburgh took his second diplomatic trip to Moscow, he died on Christmas Eve of 1647 in Novgorod. His remains were transferred to Amsterdam. His son Coenraad, who had accompanied him on his trip to Russia, vermehlte with Christina, daughter of Pieter Hooft Corneliszoon. His daughter Anna married Dirck Tulp, the son of Nicolaes, who had also accompanied him on his Moscow trip.

Albert Burgh - Burgh's grandson, a Franciscan in Rome - was in contact with corresponded Baruch Spinoza, a rich religious and philosophical correspondence bears witness to this exchange. Another grandson burghs was Coenraad van Beuningen, who would become one of the great Dutch statesmen of the 17th century. Coenraad was descended from the marriage of Geurt van Beuningen son Dirk (1588-1648) and Burgh's sister Catharina.