Isaac Titsingh FRS was a Dutch diplomat, historian, Japanologist, and merchant. During a long career in East Asia, Titsingh was a senior official of the Dutch East India Company. He represented the European trading company in exclusive official contact with Tokugawa Japan, traveling to Edo twice for audiences with the shogun and other high officials of the shogunate. He was the Dutch and VOC governor general in Chinsura, Bengal.
- Occupation
- diplomat, writer, historian, numismatist
- Position held
- ambassador, Director of Dutch Bengal, Dutch Opperhoofd in Japan, Dutch Opperhoofd in Japan
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Born
- January 10, 1745
