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Biography
Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan, count van Zuylen van Nijevelt (19 August 1819 – 1 July 1894) was a conservative Dutch politician.
From 1855 till 1860 he served as Minister Resident in Istanbul, during which time he offered The Union Church of Istanbul to use the Dutch Chapel.
Van Zuylen van Nijevelt served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands (chairman of the Council of Ministers) from 1866 to 1868. He also served as minister of Foreign Affairs from 1860 to 1861, and again from 1866 tot 1868.
He married in Scotland and had three sons and two daughters.
A member of the prominent Rotterdam patrician (regenten) family of Van Zuylen van Nijevelt, he was a son of Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt, a Dutch general who was present at the Battle of Waterloo, among others.
Honours
- 1849: Officer in the Order of Leopold.