Dirk van Hogendorp. Dirk van Hogendorp or Diderik van Hogendorp (Heenvliet 3 October 1761 - Rio de Janeiro, 29 October 1822), Count of Hogendorp, was a Dutch military, politician and colonial administrator who became famous for his anti- colonialist and for the defense of the rights of the indigenous peoples in the Dutch East Indies, present Indonesia. He joined the Napoleonic cause, so that, after Napoleon Bonaparte's final defeat, he was prevented from returning to Holland, exiling himself on a farm in New Sion, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where he died. >
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