Abraham van Riebeeck
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Abraham van Riebeeck (Template:IPA; 18 October 1653 – 17 November 1713) was a merchant with the Dutch East India Company and the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1709 to 1713.
Biography
Abraham van Riebeeck was born on 18 October 1653 in the Dutch Cape Colony (present-day South Africa). His father was Jan van Riebeeck, commander of the Cape, and his mother was Maria van Riebeeck. When his father moved to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) in 1662, he sent Van Riebeeck and his brother to Holland. He studied law at Leiden University from 1673 to 1676.<ref name="nnbw">Template:In lang Riebeeck, Mr. Abraham van, Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, 1924; retrieved 17 January 2015.</ref>
After his studies, he became a merchant with the Dutch East India Company and travelled on the ship De Vrijheyt to Batavia, where he arrived 1677.<ref name="nnbw"/>
He married Elisabeth van Oosten in 1678. They had six children, Johanna Maria (1679–1759), Johannes (1691–1735), Elisabeth (1693–1723), and three others who died in their childhood.<ref name="nnbw"/><ref>Primary sources, Women in World History; retrieved 17 January 2015.</ref><ref>Template:In lang H.M. Morien & H.K. Nagtegaal, Johan Abrahamsz. van Riebeeck (1691-1735), Hollandse Genealogische Databank, 2012; retrieved 17 January 2015.</ref>
He was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1709 until his death in 1713.<ref name="nnbw"/> He was a keen explorer, who undertook several smaller and a few larger voyages in the Indies.Template:Cn In 1712, he managed to land in Palabuhanratu and grow coffee plants with success.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Death
After he became the first person to reach the summit of Tangkuban Perahu, Van Riebeeck contracted dysentery on his way home. He was unable to recover from the disease and died on 17 November 1713 in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.<ref name="nnbw"/>
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Elisabeth van Oosten, Van Riebeeck's wife -
Elisabeth van Riebeeck, Van Riebeeck's daughter
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- 1653 births
- 1713 deaths
- 18th-century Dutch explorers
- Dutch merchants
- Explorers of Indonesia
- Governors-general of the Dutch East Indies
- People from Cape Town
- 18th-century Dutch East Indies people
- 17th-century Dutch businesspeople
- 18th-century Dutch businesspeople
- Infectious disease deaths in Indonesia
- Deaths from dysentery