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Joost Taets van Amerongen

Biography


Birth: 1761
Death: 1817

Son of Gerard van Amerongen and Anna Susanna Hasselaer. Married (1781) to Susanna Arnoldina van der Goes (1763-1826).

Also known as

  • Baron van Amerongen

Life with James Boswell

Boswell mentions that on February 25, 1764, possibly at Madame Lockhorst's, the young child said about Boswell that "He is in love with my aunt", i.e. Madame Geelvinck - which was at the time quite correct.

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Joost Taets van Amerongen is mentioned in:

  • Boswell in Holland 1763-1764

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On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.

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