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For some of the early German merchants in Nagasaki, it was their ties to the Dutch East
India Company in Batavia and at Dejima that served as their springboard to economic
success in the opening decade of the foreign settlement at Nagasaki. One such merchant
was Carl Julius Textor, who was born in what is now Bockenheim (near Frankfurt), Germany
in 1816. A botanist by training, Textor's first voyage to East Asia was sponsored by Philipp
Franz von Siebold, the eminent German physician and botanist who had served in Japan for
five years in the 1620s with the Dutch East India Company before being expelled by
Japanese authorities for trying to smuggle maps out of Japan. Siebold paid for Textor to go
to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, in the hope that Textor could find passage on a Dutch
ship to Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor and continue Siebold's work collecting plant specimens
from the country. Arriving in Batavia in June 1842, it took Textor a year to make
arrangements for the trip to Japan. Once at Dejima, Textor collected specimens and sent
them by ship back to Siebold in Europe. Unfortunately, the ship sank and most of the
specimens were lost.
In 1845, Textor returned to Germany, but the next year went back to Batavia using his own
money. There, he worked for the Dutch East India Company for a decade before being
transferred to the Dutch station at Dejima in 1856. Textor remained there until his
discharge in 1859. By this time, Nagasaki and Kanagawa [Yokohama] were open treaty ports,
and Textor and his Dutch partner from Dejima, Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek, had
established the trading company of Textor & Company in these two towns.
In Nagasaki, Textor established his headquarters at Dejima, where he lived with his
Japanese mistress and their child. C.J. Textor, who went back and forth between the
Nagasaki and Yokohama offices, was in Nagasaki at No. 11 Dejima in May 1865. He does not
appear to have resided in Nagasaki after moving his office to No. 11 Oura in early 1866.
Instead, his operations in Nagasaki were supervised initially by the German merchants C.E.
Boeddinghaus and Carl Lehmann, and later by Frederick Dittmer, Adolf Bovenschen and
Carl Rasch.
Textor & Company later expanded its operation to include offices in Hyogo and Shanghai as
well, and, in 1871, it moved its headquarters to London. Soon thereafter, however, due to
an extended depression of the silk market, Textor & Company was forced to declare
bankruptcy in London in April 1873.
Richard v.
