Jan van Riebeeck

Jan van Riebeeck
Portrait, c. 1660
1st Commander of the Cape
In office
7 April 1652 – 6 May 1662
Succeeded byZacharias Wagenaer
Personal details
Born
Johan Petros[citation needed] Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck

21 April 1619
Culemborg, County of Culemborg, Holy Roman Empire
Died18 January 1677(1677-01-18) (aged 57)
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Resting placeGroote Kerk, Jakarta
Spouses
(m. 1649; died 1664)
  • Maria Isaacks Scipio[1]
Children7, including Abraham
OccupationColonial administrator

Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck[2] (21 April 1619 – 18 January 1677)[3] was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company.[4][5]

  1. ^ van Ledden, Willem-Pieter (2005). Jan van Riebeeck tussen wal en schip: een onderzoek naar de beeldvorming over Jan van Riebeeck in Nederland en Zuid-Afrika omstreeks 1900, 1950 en 2000. Hilversum: Verloren. p. 27. ISBN 9789065508577.
  2. ^ Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑɱ vɑn ˈribeːk]; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈjan fan ˈribiək]
  3. ^ Trotter, Alys Fane Keatinge (1903). Old cape Colony : a chronicle of her men and houses from 1652 to 1806. London : Selwyn & Blount. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
  4. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, Chicago, 1990, Macropaedia, vol.15, p.570.
  5. ^ Dawson, William Harbutt, South Africa, London, 1925, p.216.