Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt

Julius ( Jules ) Philip Jacob Adriaan van Zuylen van Nijevelt Graf ( born August 19, 1819 in Dommeldange, Luxembourg, † July 1, 1894 in The Hague) was an anti- revolutionary, later conservative Dutch statesman. 1866-1868 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers. This office had his cousin Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt exercised in 1861.

Van Zuylen van Nijevelt studied at the University of Utrecht Law, where he received his doctorate in 1841, and then embarked on a diplomatic career. 1860-1861 he was foreign minister. After a period as a Dutch ambassador in Berlin (1863-1865), he was 1866-1868 at the personal request King Willem III. again foreign minister and was also Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In this term of office of the Luxembourg crisis in which van Zuylen played an important diplomatic role fell. During the crisis brought him in Parliament in trouble, Otto von Bismarck is supposed to have said in this connection to him, Vous avez la paix sauvé de l'Europe.

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