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Emanuel van Meteren

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Flemish historian, consul for Low Countries traders in London (1535-1612)

WritersLived 1535 to 1612 · aged 76
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Emanuel van Meteren or Meteeren was a Flemish historian and Consul for "the Traders of the Low Countries" in London.

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Writers born in the 1530s 6

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About this person

Emanuel van Meteren or Meteeren was a Flemish historian and Consul for "the Traders of the Low Countries" in London. He was born in Antwerp, the son of Sir Jacobus van Meteren, Dutch financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible, and Ottilia Ortellius, of the famous Ortellius family of mapmakers, and nephew of the cartographer Abraham Ortelius.

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Lived 1535 to 1612 · aged 76
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