Gijsbert Karel, Count van Hogendorp (27 October 1762 – 5 August 1834) was a conservative Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 statesman. He was the brother of Dirk van Hogendorp the elder and the father of Dirk van Hogendorp the younger

Dirk van Hogendorp (1797-1845)

Dirk, Count van Hogendorp , son of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, nephew of Dirk van Hogendorp , father of Dirk van Hogendorp jr., was a Dutch jurist. Van Hogendorp lived continually in the shadow of his father, the founder of the first Dutch Constitution.-Life:Van Hogendorp, studied law at Leiden...

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Van Hogendorp was born in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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, and went to school in Berlin

Berlin

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. In 1785 he attended the University of Leiden, where he majored in law. He was pensionaris, main legal advisor and advocate, of Rotterdam from 1788 to 1795, only to be dismissed for having princely "orange" sympathies after a republican revolt.

He was part of the Driemanschap

Driemanschap

The Driemanschap of 1813 was formed after Charles-François Lebrun and the French troops suddenly left the area of the Netherlands.It consisted of Frans Adam van der Duyn van Maasdam, Leopold of Limburg Stirum and Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp....

 (Triumvirate) that invited William I of the Netherlands

William I of the Netherlands

William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau , was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg....

 to become Prince of the new independent Netherlands in 1813. He served as Prime Minister from 1813 to 1814, and headed the commission that wrote the Constitution of the Netherlands

Constitution of the Netherlands

The Constitution of the Netherlands is the fundamental law of the European territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The present constitution is generally seen as directly derived from the one issued in 1815, constituting a constitutional monarchy. A revision in 1848 instituted a system of...

of 1814.