21 April 1619 Culemborg, County of Culemborg, Holy Roman Empire
Died
18 January 1677(1677-01-18) (aged 57) Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Resting place
Groote Kerk, Jakarta
Spouses
Maria de la Queillerie
(m. 1649; died 1664)
Maria Isaacks Scipio[1]
Children
7, including Abraham
Occupation
Colonial 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]
^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.
^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.
Anthoniszoon "Jan" vanRiebeeck (21 April 1619 – 18 January 1677) was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. Janvan Riebeeck...
Maria vanRiebeeck (née de la Queillerie; 28 October 1629 – 2 November 1664) was a French Huguenot who was the first wife of JanvanRiebeeck, the Dutch...
1713. Abraham vanRiebeeck was born on 18 October 1653 in the Dutch Cape Colony (present-day South Africa). His father was JanvanRiebeeck, commander of...
for Dutch ships sailing to East Africa, India, and the Far East. JanvanRiebeeck's arrival on 6 April 1652 established the VOC Cape Colony, the first...
either of her uncle Autshumato (also known as Kx'aothumathub) or of JanvanRiebeeck and Maria de la Quellerie.[citation needed] Her actual birth name is...
anniversary of the landing of JanvanRiebeeck. It has a high school named Jeugland Hoërskool and a primary school named Laerskool Van Riebeeckpark, just a few...
Company established a trading post in Cape Town under the command of JanvanRiebeeck in 1652, European workers who settled at the Cape became known as the...
near the Fort of Good Hope JanvanRiebeeck's farms Boundary fence which were later by a hedge also known as VanRiebeeck's Hedge 1 Oliphant Street (to-day...
raised in Hout Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, and attended Hoërskool JanvanRiebeeck. Botha earned a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics...
first bottle being produced in Cape Town by its founder and governor JanvanRiebeeck. Access to international markets led to new investment in the South...
JanvanRiebeeck landed at the Cape on 6 April 1652, setting up a supply station and fortifications for the Dutch East India Company. The decade saw the...
Dutch Navy by William of Orange. On 11 October 1652, under JanVanRiebeeck's command, Jan Blank, a sailor, was keelhauled, whipped a total of 150 lashes...
van der Merwe, a minister of religion. He received his schooling at JanvanRiebeeck High School in Cape Town, South Africa, and in 1950 played for the...
1652, a century and a half after the discovery of the cape sea route, JanvanRiebeeck established a victualling station at the Cape of Good Hope, at what...
grape may have been one of the first to be grown in South Africa by JanvanRiebeeck in 1655, or it may have come to that country with Huguenots fleeing...
1657, Rijcklof van Goens, a senior VOC officer appointed as commissioner to the fledgling Dutch Cape Colony, ordered JanvanRiebeeck to help more employees...
the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) under JanvanRiebeeck. Despite the preponderance of officials and colonists from the Netherlands...
East India Company, when it established a replenishment station under JanvanRiebeeck on the shore of Table Bay in 1652. Constructed of earth and timber...
politician and ambassador, negotiated the Treaty of Westminster (1654) JanvanRiebeeck (1619–1677) colonial administrator, founded Cape Town, South Africa...
painter and etcher (d. 1619) 1619 – JanvanRiebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (d. 1677) 1630 – Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, Dutch-English painter...
The VanRiebeeck Decoration, post-nominal letters DVR, is a South African military decoration for bravery which was instituted by the Union of South Africa...
in 1661. The mountain, Riebeeck's Kasteel Berg (Riebeeck's Castle Mountain) was named after then Cape commander JanvanRiebeeck by this expedition and...
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