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RiiYrq)f. born in The Hague on the 7th April, 1633. Accord- 
ing to Joclier he practised at Leyden as a physician ; but he 
appears to have given up the practice of his profession, as 
in 1660 he went with the ambassador Fan ^mnm^m to Paris, 
when, in 1663, he was appointed Private Secretary to Willem 
Boreel, the successor of Van Beuningen, After the death of 
Boreel he was, on the 4:th October, 1668, appointed Secretary 
to the Legation in Paris. In the meantime, having been 
appointed ambassador, he remained in Paris till the 27th 
March, 1674, although appointed, on the 21st April, 1673, 
Resident at the Court of Portugal, the duties of which office 
he never undertook, being relieved on the 20th April, 1674, 
by his appointment as President at the Court of Sweden, 
which appointment he held until his death at Stockholm on 
the 2nd August, 1706. He was buried on the 5th August in 
the Mariakerk. 
Christiaan Gonstantyn Rumpf was twice married — firstly, 
in Paris, on the 13th April, 1670, to Elizabeth Pierrat de 
Longiieville (born in Metz, 1646, died in Stockholm, 9th March, 
1675), daughter of Capt. Abraham Pierrat de Longiieville 
and Susanna Coulet; and secondly, to Anna Margarita Bex 
(born in Stockholm, 6th October, 1659), daughter of Isaac Bex 
and Sara Hovius and sister of Dr. Abraham Bex^ a merchant 
at Gottenberg. Isaac Augustin Rumpf was a child of the 
first marriage of his father, Christiaan Gonstantyn Rumpf ^ 
having been born on the 21st November, 1673 (at The Hague) 
according to his tombstone.* He was promoted at Leyden 
to the degree of Doctor of Laws, having written a thesis, 
which he dedicated to his father, in which he is described 
as " Haga-Batavus." He left for the Indies in 1707 in the 
ship " 't Huis te Loo " on behalf of the Chamber Amsterdam, 
with the rank of Onderkoopman, and succeeded Hendrik 
Bekker^ at the end of the year 1716, as Governor of Ceylon. 
He was married to Gysberta Johanna Blesius^ (baptized in 
* Journal, R.A.S. (C.B.), vol. XV., ^o. 49, p. 228, 2 Ceylon Literary 
Register, 118. 
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