Background
His father, born in Geneva, became a pastor of the Walloon church in Leiden in 1651.
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Roelof Diodati
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Career
Diodati was from Swiss-Italian descent. lieutenant is not obvious Rodolfo Diodati was one of a twin. Both brothers took service at the Dutch East India Company.
He became an accountant at the Cape from 1686 and then a merchant.
He was appointed as governor of Mauritius from 1692-1703. In 1693 he had to deal with François Leguat.
In 1695, a big hurricane devastated the island, several of the Burghers lost all theirs crops, many left the island. Diodati seems to have been appointed in Suratte.
Then he shifted to Batavia and he became a merchant and accountant on 4 January 1707.
Her grandmother was Eva, a Khoikhoi interpreter for January van Riebeeck. Diodati became opperhoofd at the VOC post at Dejima Japan on 31 May 1720 and died in Batavia 10 March 1723.
