KINSBERGEN, JAN HENDRIK VAN

(1735–1819)

Naval officer. Van Kinsbergen won fame in the service of the Russian empress Catherine II. He commanded the Russian fleet in the Black Sea against the Turks in the 1770s. After his return to the Republic, he successfully fought the North African (Barbary) pirates. During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War at sea (1780–1784), Van Kinsbergen distin guished himself in the battle of Doggersbank in 1781. He also wrote several books on sea tactics.