Johannes van Iddekinge
The year Amsterdam had no appointed mayor: 1854.
In 1854 Amsterdam briefly had no appointed mayor. Hendrik Provó Kluit left for the Supreme Court on 1 January 1854, and his successor Cornelis Boot did not take office until 1 February 1855. Official lists of Amsterdam's mayors therefore show 1854 as a year without one. For that period Johannes van Iddekinge is recorded as acting mayor.
Little is known about his life. Johannes van Iddekinge was born in Amsterdam on 24 March 1787. He enrolled at the Athenaeum Illustre, the forerunner of the University of Amsterdam, in 1805, studying arts and law, and took his doctorate in Leiden on 31 August 1810.
Van Iddekinge was a well-known name in Dutch government: in the eighteenth century the family supplied mayors of Groningen, and a Tjaard Anthony van Iddekinge sat in Amsterdam's city government around 1800. The sources do not show exactly how Johannes was related to them.
His stint as acting mayor fell in a quiet in-between year, at a time when the city was still adjusting to the new Municipalities Act of 1851. Early in 1855 Cornelis Boot took over.
- 01Amsterdam had no appointed mayor from January 1854 to February 1855.
- 02Van Iddekinge is recorded as acting mayor for 1854.
- 03He took his doctorate in Leiden on 31 August 1810.