Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen

Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen
Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen
	1806 portrait of van Kinsbergen by Charles Howard Hodges
Born	1 May 1735; Doesburg, Dutch Republic
Died	24 May 1819 (aged 84); Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Allegiance	Dutch Republic ; Russian Empire ; Kingdom of Holland ; First French Empire ; Kingdom of the Netherlands
Branch	Dutch States Army ; Dutch States Navy ; Imperial Russian Navy ; Navy of the Kingdom of Holland ; French Imperial Navy ; Royal Netherlands Navy
Service years	1744–1748 (Dutch States Army) ; 1756–1795 (Dutch States Navy) ; 1771–1775 (Imperial Russian Navy) ; 1806–1810 (Navy of the Kingdom of Holland) ; 1810–1813 (French Imperial Navy) ; 1813–1819 (Royal Netherlands Navy)
Rank	Lieutenant admiral (Royal Netherlands Navy)
Conflicts	Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) Battle of Balaclava (1773); Battle of Sucukkale; ; Fourth Anglo-Dutch War Battle of Dogger Bank (1781); ; War of the First Coalition Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition; ; War of the Sixth Coalition;

Lieutenant-Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank (1 May 1735 – 24 May 1819) was a Dutch naval officer who served in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Having had a good scientific education, Van Kinsbergen was a proponent of fleet modernization and wrote several books about naval organization, discipline and tactics.

In 1773, he twice defeated the Ottoman Navy while serving in the Imperial Russian Navy. Returning to the Dutch Republic in 1775, he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and eventually attained the position of commander-in-chief of the Dutch States Navy as a lieutenant admiral. When France conquered Holland in 1795 he was fired by the new Batavian Republic and prevented from becoming commander-in-chief of the Royal Dano-Norwegian navy, though the Kingdom of Holland reinstated him in 1806, in the rank of fleet marshal, and made him a count.

He was again degraded by the French Empire in 1810; after the liberation the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1814 honoured him with his old rank of lieutenant admiral. Van Kinsbergen, in his later life a very wealthy man, was also noted for his philanthropy, supporting poor relief, naval education, the arts and the sciences.