# Joost Schouten

> Joost Schouten was a Dutch East Indies Company figure of considerable repute, in demand as an astute administrator, diplomat, courtier and negotiator for this Dutch colonial and mercantile outpost in the South-East Asian archipelago today known as Indonesia. In July 1644, Schouten was found to have engaged in homosexual sex with numerous men. Convicted of sodomy, a capital offence in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, he was burnt at the stake.

*Dutch merchant and diplomat*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1600
- **Died:** 1644-07-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 41.6 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 6.3 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 40.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 45.0 / 100

## Sources
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515760)

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