Michael Reyniersz Pauw
Michiel " Reyniersz " Pauw (* March 29, 1590 in Amsterdam, † March 24, 1640 ibid ) was member of the government of Amsterdam and head or director ( Bewindhebber ) of the Dutch West India Company. Furthermore, he was lord of lords " Achttienhoven " and the Bosch called ( at Nieuwkoop ), founder of its own colony on the North American east coast, Pavonia, and " ruler " of the colony.
Curriculum vitae
Family Pauw
Michiel Pauw came from the original entstamme ends of Gouda Patriziergeschlecht der Pauw, which was during the Golden Age to his political heyday. His parents were the major Amsterdam Regent Reinier Pauw and Cornelia de Lange. One of Michiels brothers was Adriaan Pauw, the Grand Pensionary of Holland and co-organizer of the Peace of Münster ( 1648) was. Michiel Pauw married in 1615 Hillegonda mirror ( 1599-1677 ), daughter of Laurens Jansz mirror, Schepen and alderman of Amsterdam and the Ouderogghe Neeltje, wife of Achttienhoven from which marriage sprang at least two children. Other sources speak of four children: among other things. Cornelia Pauw, who in 1639 with Adam Horst Baron van Look, heer van de Lier, married name and Isaäc Pauw.
Career
After his Rechtsstudim which he graduated with the degree of Master Pauw was appointed commissioner of the small church zaken and master the Nieuwe Kerk ( 1616) in the management of his hometown. From 1617 to 1624 he worked as Schepen in city government. Between the years of 1621 and 1636 was Pauw co-founder and one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company. On April 20, 1623 he was made a Venetian knight of Saint Marcus. In 1627 he worked for the Dutch West India Company as an envoy in France.
Pauw could be build by the architect Philips Vingboons a magnificent townhouse on the Herengracht. The gable is the coat of arms Pauw family with two Santa is to see Marcus lion as its plate holder.
Through a legal ceremony of the Dutch West India Company Pauw founded in 1630 in the area of today's Hudson County, New Jersey and Staten Iceland own colony, which he ' Pavonia ' called, a name which is derived from the Latin word pavo ( "Peacock " ) is derived, as its name Pauw the Dutch word for" is Peacock ". He was the " ruler " of the feudal title Patroon. As his commander Pauw Cornelis van Voorst hired, further he talked to a private Prädiger. In 1637 he sold for 26,000 florins Pavonia back to the West India Company.
Through this source of income Philips Vingboons got in 1638 the contract for Pauw a magnificent townhouse on the Herengracht ( No. 168) to build.