Pieter van den Broecke

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• Occupation: 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.[1] He also went to Angola three times. He was one of the first Europeans to describe societies in West and Central Africa and in detail trade strategies along the African coast
• Residence: 1597, Hamburg, Germany; The family lived in Hamburg for a while and left around 1597 for Amsterdam.[4] At the time the VOC began to develop, the younger Pieter joined it as a tradesman and climbed the career ladde
• Event: 1605; Reize naar Africa 1605-1612
• Event: 1613; Reize naar Oosr-India 1612-1614
• Event: 1614, Mocha, Gujar?t, India; In 1614 he visited Mocha and drank "something hot and black, a coffee", stealing some of the closely guarded arabica coffee bushes in 1616 and taking them back to Amsterdam, where they began to thrive in the Amsterdam Botanical Garden. Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_den_Broecke

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