Adriaen Maertensz Block (c.1582,
Gouda
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* Gouda, South Holland, a city in the Netherlands
** Gouda (pottery), style of pottery manufactured in Gouda
** Gouda cheese, type of cheese originally made in and around Gouda
** Gouda railway station
* Gouda, Western Cape, a s ...
– 7 March 1661,
Lisse) was successively captain, commander, and governor of
Ambon
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Places
* Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia
** Ambon, Maluku, a city on Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku province
** Governorate of Ambon, a colony of the Dutch East India Company from 1605 to 1796
* Ambon, Morbihan, a co ...
between 1614 and 1617, administrator of the ''
Raad van Indië
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Initially the council had four members and a chairman, all Dutch na ...
'' for the
Kamer of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam (VOC) in
Batavia.
In 1627 two of his ships wrecked on the island of
Wight in a storm. He probably intended to go there to buy secretly and trade privately. He was suspended and declared unsuitable for other similar offices and retired in a country house at Lisse (which he had let built in 1641), now known as
Kasteel Keukenhof.
In his inventory were many books listed on navigation and history:
Jan Huygen van Linschoten,
Hugo de Groot
Hugo Grotius (; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot () and Hugo de Groot (), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, poet and playwright.
A teenage intellectual prodigy, he was born in Delf ...
,
Justus Lipsius
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,
Lieuwe van Aitzema,
Plutarch
Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ...
,
Tacitus
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The surviving portions of his two major works—the ...
.
[ Hulkenberg, A.M. (1975) Keukenhof. Uitgave van de Historische Vereniging Holland, p. 49-51.]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Block, Adriaen Maertensz
1580s births
1661 deaths
People from Gouda, South Holland
Sailors on ships of the Dutch East India Company