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Cornelis de Houtman
Dutch explorer (–)
Cornelis de Houtman (2 April &#;– 11 September ) was a Dutch merchant seaman who commanded the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies.[1] Although the voyage was difficult and yielded only a modest profit, Houtman showed that the Portuguese monopoly on the spice trade was vulnerable. A flurry of Dutch trading voyages followed, eventually leading to the displacement of the Portuguese and the establishment of a Dutch monopoly on spice trading in the East Indies.[2]
Early life
[edit]Cornelis de Houtman was born in in Gouda, South Holland. His father, Pieter de Houtman, was a brewer. Cornelis had a younger brother, Frederick de Houtman, born in and two sisters.
In , Houtman's wealthy cousin, Reynier Pauw, and several other prosperous merchants in Amsterdam formed a company, Compagnie van Verre, to finance a Dutch trading expedition to the East Indies. Their initial inspiration had been the publication of a serie
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• Cornelisde Houtman formerly Houtman Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling(s) unknown] [spouse(s) unknown] [children unknown] Profile last modified | Created 2 Dec This page has been accessed 2, times. Cornelis (Houtman) de Houtman is Notable. Cornelis de Houtman was a Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia and who thus began the Dutch spice trade. The voyage was a symbolic victory for the Dutch, even though the voyage itself was a disaster. [1] Cornelis de Houtman was born 2 April He was a brother of Frederick de Houtman. [1] In Cornelis de Houtman was sent by Amsterdam merchants to Lisbon to discover as much information on the Spice Islands as he could. Portugal and Spain, then united, had closed their ports to Dutch ships in in the context of the Eighty Years' War. Houtman spent about two year
London, Amsterdam, Bologna and Rome.
Engraver and copperplate printer. Engraved a pair of celestial and terrestrial charts to illustrate John Blagrave, “Astrolabium uranicum generale" ;
Beschrijvinghe der zeecusten van Barbarielal tusken de straet van Gijbraltar ende caep de Cantin for Lucas Jansz. Waghenaer, “Thresoor der zee-vaert" ;
maps of Java, Sumatra, Madagascar and St. Helena for “Caert-thresoor, inhoudende de taflen des gantsche werelts landen” , published by Cornelis Claesz of Amsterdam;
Gabriel Tatton, Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californiae, Novae Hispaiae Californiae. Novae Hispaiae, Mexicanae, et Peruviae ;
Gabriel Tatton, Maris Pacifici quod Mar sektion Zur ; Hispaniae nova describtio ; Tabula geographica provinciarum Brabantiæ, Geldriæ comitatus, Sutphaniæ, Traiectini, Transilvaniæ, Drentiæ, Twentiæ, Hollandiæ, et Frisiæ; una cum præterlabentium fluviorum delineation for Cornelis Claesz;
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