Economics

Norbertus Petrus van den Berg (1831-1917) was a man of many talents and outstanding capacities. During 1845-49 he was educated at the commerce department of the Erasmus Gymnasium in his native Rotterdam. He did not graduate, because he had to replace his brother in his father's firm. Later in 1855, he left the company and took up a junior position in Indonesia at the Nederlandische Handel-Maatschappij in Batavia. In 1864 he moved to the Netherland East Indies Trading Bank where he became director of the main representative office of this Dutch bank in Batavia.