Joan Geelvinck was a mayor of Amsterdam for scarcely six months in 1787. He came to office after two Orangist mayors were ejected in a radical way. Hendrik Daniëlsz Hooft, the father of Joan's brother-in-law, was the leader of the Amsterdam Patriots in the vroedschap. Geelvinck was the son of Nicolaas Geelvinck and the grandson of Lieve Geelvinck, both mayors of Amsterdam. In 1780 his brother Nicolaas became representative of the stadtholder in the West India Company. His sister was Agatha Theodora Geelvinck.
- Occupation
- politician, legal scholar, Schöffe
- Position held
- mayor of Amsterdam, ambassador of the Netherlands to Belgium, member of the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
