Jan van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg on the 21st of April 1619, as the son of a surgeon. He grew up in Schiedam, where he married a 19-year-old Maria de la Queillerie on 28 March 1649. She died in Malacca, now part of Malaysia, on 2 November 1664, at the age of 35. The couple had eight or nine children, most of whom did not survive infancy. Jan van Riebeeck, (born April 21, 1619, Culemborg, Netherlands—died January 18, 1677, Batavia, Dutch East Indies [now Jakarta, Indonesia]), Dutch colonial administrator who founded (1652) Cape Town and thus opened Southern Africa for white settlement.
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Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (Jan van Riebeeck) was born on 21 April 1619 in Culemborg, Netherlands to a surgeon. He spent his youth in Schiedam, Netherlands where, on 28 March 1649, he married Maria de la Queillerie, with whom he had eight children. On 24 December 1651, accompanied by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck had signed a contract with the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to oversee the setting up of a refreshment station to supply Dutch ships on their way to the East. Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (April 21, 1619 - January 18, 1677), was a Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town. Commissioned by the Dutch East India Company, the merchant Jan van Riebeeck established the European settlement in South Africa at Cape Town, anchoring in the bay at the foot of the Table Mountain on April 6, 1652. Between 1652, the year of Jan van Riebeeck's landing at the Cape, and 1658, when the first slave shipment arrived, between 11 and 20 slaves had already been brought to the Cape colony.
Portrait of Jan van Riebeeck (161977). Commander of the Cape of Good Hope and of Malacca and
Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (April 21, 1619 - January 18, 1677) was a Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town, a city in South Africa. Biography. Van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands as the son of a surgeon. He grew up in Schiedam, where he married 19-year old Maria de la Quellerie on 28 March 1649. Jan van Riebeeck was a Dutch official who brought some of the first European settlers to southern Africa . He founded a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, at the southern tip of the continent. The settlement supplied ships traveling from Europe to Asia with fresh water and food. That settlement grew into what is now Cape Town , South Africa . Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. Introduction Jan van Riebeeck Life Early life Employment in the VOC Commander of the Cape Colony The heart of the book is its detailed exploration of the 1952 Jan van Riebeeck tercentenary festival, a. public event hitherto neglected in histories of Afrikaner nationalism and of the apartheid state. Witz. shows that the National Party government seized on this event as 'an opportunity to construct a history.
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Jan van Riebeeck is considered to be the Founding Father of the South African Cape. Responsible for the establishment of Cape Town in South Africa, he began his career as a Dutch Colonial administrator for the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, which is now known as the Dutch-East India Company. Jan van Riebeeck Arrives, 1652. The arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator, at Table Bay (Cape of Good Hope) marked the beginning of permanent European settlement in the region. Last Updated: July 26, 2022. facebook sharing.
Published by capeetc on April 6, 2018. Today is the 366th anniversary of Jan van Riebeeck's landing at the Cape. For better or for worse, van Riebeeck's arrival had a profound impact on how Cape Town - and the rest of South Africa - would develop. Van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape with three ships, and the intention to set up a. Jan van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist settlers landed at the Cape on 6 April 1652. van Riebeeck had received a commission from the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) to establish a refreshment station for passing ships.
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Jan Van Riebeeck arrived in South Africa in 1652. Who of my generation does not know this? It was drilled into all our minds at primary school. And even if we were not lucky enough to go to school, the mythology certainly did not pass us by. The version of history taught to us started with him. Journal of Jan van Riebeeck Annotation Krotoa, called Eva by the Dutch, is the first Khoikhoi woman to appear in the European records of the early settlement at the Cape as an individual personality and active participant in cultural and economic exchange. Eva joined Commander Jan van Riebeeck's household at the Dutch fort at around age 12.
