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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|17th-century Danish merchant and governor of Danish India}}<br />
{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Claus Vogdt<br />
| order = 14th<br />
| monarch = [[Christian V]]<br />[[Frederick IV of Denmark|Frederick IV]]<br />
| country = [[Denmark–Norway]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Christian Porck]]<br />
| successor = [[Andreas Andræ]]<br />
| term_start = 1694<br />
| term_end = 19 May 1701<br />
| birth_date = Unknown<br />
| birth_place = [[Denmark–Norway]]<br />
| death_date = 1701<br />
| death_place = [[Tranquebar]], [[Danish India]]<br />
| allegiance = Denmark–Norway<br />
| office = Governor of Tranquebar<br />
| service_years = {{circa|1669–1701}}<br />
| battles = {{Tree list}}<br />
*[[Dano-Mughal War]]<br />
*[[Siege of Tranquebar (1699)]]<br />
{{tree list/end}}<br />
| spouse = Ulrica Anthoinette<br />
}}<br />
'''Claus Vogdt{{Efn|{{IPA|da|klɑʊ̯s vɔʊ̯ð}}}}''' (alternatively spelled '''Voigt''' and '''Vogt'''; {{Died in|19 May 1701}}) was a Danish [[merchant]] and [[governor of Tranquebar]] from 1694 to his death in 1701.<br />
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Vogdt came to Tranquebar in 1669 as a merchant, but became governor upon the death of Governor [[Christian Porck]]. During his governance, Vogdt oversaw the consecration of the [[Zion Church, Tharangambadi|first Lutheran church in India]], the [[Dano-Mughal Treaty|establishment of peace]] with the Mughal Empire, and the defence of Tranquebar during its [[Siege of Tranquebar (1699)|siege in 1699]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
Claus Vogdt was installed as a lower [[merchant]] ({{Langx|da|underkøbmand|label=none}}) by the [[Danish East India Company]] on the frigate [[HDMS Færøe|''Færøe'']] in the late 1690s and arrived on 31 May 1669 at the Danish colony of [[Tranquebar]]. He was subsequently installed at [[Fort Dansborg]] with the same mercantile function. Vogdt's position eventually advanced to chief merchant ({{Langx|da|overkøbmand|label=none}}) and became the [[Provisional government|Interim]] [[Governor of Tranquebar]] at the death of Governor [[Christian Porck]] in 1694. His position as governor was officially confirmed by a [[royal decree]] on 2 October 1695.{{Sfn|Larsen|1940|p=117}}<br />
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=== Mughal negotiations ===<br />
{{Main|Dano-Mughal Treaty}}<br />
In January 1695, Vogdt sent [[secretary]] [[Andreas Andræ]] to the [[Malabar Coast]] to encourage the newly established trade in that region.{{Sfn|Larsen|1940|p=117}} Consequently, the Danes established a pepper [[Clearing house (finance)|clearing house]] in [[Oddeway Torre]]{{Sfn|Snodgrass|2012}} (Danish [[Corruption (linguistics)|corruption]] of [[Edava]]) near [[Varkala]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kamalakaran |first=Ajay |date=2020-12-10 |title=When the Danes set up shop on the Malabar Coast |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/lifestyle/keralaspora/2018/11/12/denmark-kerala-malabar-coast.html |access-date=2025-12-12 |website=onmanorama.com}}</ref> After Andræ's return in May, Vogdt sent him to [[Malacca]], [[Aceh]], and later in 1698 to [[Bengal]],{{Sfn|Larsen|1940|p=117}} accompanied by [[Thomas Schmertz]].{{Sfn|Wellen|2015|p=459}} Here, Andræ negotiated the [[Dano-Mughal Treaty]] with the [[Mughal Empire]],{{Sfn|Larsen|1940|p=117}} which reestablished Danish trading rights, made both parties renounce [[war reparations]], and ceded [[Dannemarksnagore]] to [[Danish India]].{{Sfn|Bastrup|1919|p=521}}{{Sfn|Wellen|2015|p=459}} In the same year, on 29 October, [[Christian V of Denmark|King Christian V of Denmark]] issued a new [[charter]] for a period of 40 years for the D. E. I. C., which was confirmed by Christian V's successor, [[Frederick IV of Denmark|Frederick IV]], the following year. The charter was nearly identical to the 1670 charter, but gave the company the authority to appoint the Commander of [[Dansborg]].{{Sfn|Bastrup|1919|p=521}}<br />
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=== Siege of Tranquebar ===<br />
{{Main|Siege of Tranquebar (1699)}}<br />
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Still, in 1698, Vogdt became involved in a conflict with [[Thanjavur Nayak kingdom|Thanjavur]], where [[Siege of Tranquebar (1699)|Tranquebar was besieged]], and a part of the Danish district was severely plundered. Despite defending the siege with English help, the {{Abbr|D.E.I.C.|Danish East India Company}} suffered notable losses.{{Sfn|Larsen|1940|p=117}} However, Vogdt had, in 1696, improved and expanded the [[city wall]],{{Sfn|Diller|1999}} and the siege was subsequently futile.{{Sfn|Bastrup|1919|p=520}} The improved fortifications and Vogdt's mildness attracted numerous migrants from [[Thanjavur]].{{Sfn|Bastrup|1919|p=520}} Additionally, Vogdt participated in the local [[Slave Trade|slave trade]] and allowed the company to make voyages to [[Aceh|Achin]], [[Sumatra]].{{Sfn|Bastrup|1919|p=521}}{{Sfn|Díaz|2019}} Altogether, the company got 217,747 [[Danish rigsdaler]] from 1688 to 1697 from slavery.{{Sfn|Bastrup|1919|p=521}}<br />
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According to a poem, the [[Zion Church, Tharangambadi|Zion Church]] in Tranquebar, which was the first [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] church in India, was consecrated during Vogdt's tenure.{{Sfn|Gross|2006|p=238}}<br />
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Vogdt died suddenly on 19 May 1701 and was succeeded by his secretary, Andreas Andræ.{{Sfn|Larsen|1940|p=117}}<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Claus Vogdt was married to Ulrica Anthoinette, who died in 1699 in Tranquebar. The marriage was childless.{{Sfn|Larsen|1940|p=117}} Following his death, a commission was established to determine how much damage Vogdt had caused Tranquebar when he arbitrarily involved the colony in the siege of 1699.{{Sfn|Larsen|1940|p=117}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* {{Annotated link|Anders Nielsen (colonist)}}<br />
* {{Annotated link|Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg}}<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
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=== Notes ===<br />
{{Notelist}}<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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=== Works cited ===<br />
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* {{Cite book |last=Larsen |first=Kay |url=https://slaegtsbibliotek.dk/922667.pdf |title=Guvernører, Residenter, Kommandanter og Chefer |publisher=Arthur Jensens Forlag |year=1940 |location=[[Copenhagen]] |language=Danish}}<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Bastrup |first=C. |url=https://tekniskkulturarv.dk/book/2978acf6-bbe5-41ef-a226-edd02b6a48d2/danmarks-s-fart-og-s-handel.pdf |title=Danmarks Søfart og Søhandel |publisher=Nyt Nordisk Forlag |year=1919 |location=Copenhagen |pages= |language=Danish |trans-title=Danish Shipping and Maritime Trade}}<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Díaz |first=Jorge Simón Izquierdo |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/9E9CF31BAD48B665B8B493273A385DC5/S0165115319000238a.pdf/div-class-title-the-trade-in-domestic-servants-morianer-from-tranquebar-for-upper-class-danish-homes-in-the-first-half-of-the-seventeenth-century-div.pdf |title=The Trade in Domestic Servants (Morianer) from Tranquebar for Upper Class Danish Homes in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2019 |pages=199 |language=English |archive-date=2020-05-05 |access-date=2025-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505190326/https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/9E9CF31BAD48B665B8B493273A385DC5/S0165115319000238a.pdf/div-class-title-the-trade-in-domestic-servants-morianer-from-tranquebar-for-upper-class-danish-homes-in-the-first-half-of-the-seventeenth-century-div.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown }}<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Diller |first=Stephan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zvvSpaWcTIC&dq=Danish+balasore+1673&pg=PA216 |title=Die Dänen in Indien, Südostasien und China (1620-1845) |date=1999 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |isbn=978-3-447-04123-2 |pages=184 |language=de}}<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Wellen |first=Kathryn |url=https://www.kitlv.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Mughal.pdf |title=The Danish East India Company's War against the Mughal Empire, 1642-1698 |publisher=Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies |year=2015 |isbn= |edition= |location=}}<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Gross |first=Andreas |url=https://www.francke-halle.de/files/user_upload/publikationen/pdf/08_Einzelveroeffentlichungen/HalleandtheBeginning_neu.pdf |title=Halle and the Beginning of Protestant Christianity in India |date= |publisher=Publishing House of the Francke Foundations in Halle |pages=238 |language=English |year=2006 |location=[[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]}}<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Snodgrass |first=Mary |url=https://www.google.dk/books/edition/World_Food/cWJgDwAAQBAJ?hl=da&gbpv=1&dq=Danish+oddeway+torre+%221696%22&pg=PT422&printsec=frontcover |title=World Food |date= |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |language=English |year=2012 }}<br />
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