page_title: Burchard Joan Elias
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Burchard Joan Elias / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Dutch cemetery at Bogor Botanical Gardens (Java, Indonesia), 2018. Text reads: "Cornelia Dorethea Adelheid Elias, geb[ore]n Scholten van Aschat / overleden den 30 april 1836 / op den leeftyd van 43 jaren".
context_page_description: Burchard Joan Elias was the last Governor-General of the Dutch West Indies, a colony that existed between 1828 and 1845 as a merger of Surinam and Curaçao and Dependencies. After Elias left office, the colony was again split. Before his governorship, Elias served as resident of Cirebon and as Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Colonies.
context_section_description: Burchard Joan Elias was born in Amsterdam to Gerbrand Elias and Henriëtte Alexandrine Adélaïde von Deneken. In 1823, he married Cornelia Dorothea Adelheid Scholten van Aschat. After her death in 1836, he married her sister Lidie Henriëtte Scholten van Aschat in 1837.
  Burchard Joan Elias was the father of Henri Alexander Elias, who served as Governor of the Dutch Gold Coast.
caption: Grave of Cornelia Elias, first wife of Burchard Elias
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