# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pieter-van-den-broecke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:23:21.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pieter-van-den-broecke"
name: "Pieter van den Broecke"
slug: "pieter-van-den-broecke"
description: "Pieter van den Broecke was a Dutch cloth merchant in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and one of the first Dutchmen to taste coffee. He also went to Angola three times. He was one of the first Europeans to describe societies in West and Central Africa and to comment in detail trade strategies along the African coast."
tagline: "Dutch cloth merchant in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pieter_van_den_Broecke_-_painted_by_Frans_Hals_(1633).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1585-02-25"
deathDate: "1640-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.83
  momentum:             6.230990822000401
  historical:           7.620304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "彼得·范登布羅克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_den_Broecke"
    title: "Pieter van den Broecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_den_Broecke"
    title: "Pieter van den Broecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_den_Broecke"
    title: "Pieter van den Broecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_den_Broecke"
    title: "Pieter van den Broecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_den_Broecke"
    title: "Pieter van den Broecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_den_Broecke"
    title: "Pieter van den Broecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_den_Broecke"
    title: "Pieter van den Broecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump