Pieter van den Broecke
✓ Source-basedstableDutch cloth merchant in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
Historical FiguresLived 1585 to 1640 · aged 55
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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.
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Pieter van den Broecke, by Frans Hals (Kenwood House)
Illustration depicting about the Sultan of Mataram and the Dutch leader Pieter van den Broecke seen taken captive by the Javanese forces, François Valentyn in the book 1619.
Pieter van den Broecke's 1617 drawing of a dodo, sheep, and red rail on MauritiusHistorical Figures born in the 1580s 6
About this person
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.
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Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1585 to 1640 · aged 55
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