Pieter van den Broecke
Dutch merchant
Born on: February 25, 1585Died on: December 1, 1640
Aged: 55 years 280 days (669 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Southern netherlands
Birth Sign: Pisces
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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