Frederick de Houtman

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Frederick de Houtman
Governor of Amboyna
In office
1 March 1605 – 18 February 1611 (1605-03-01 – 1611-02-18)
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byCaspar Janszoon
Personal details
Born
Frederik de Houtman

Unknown date, c. 1571
Gouda, South Holland, Seventeen Provinces
Died21 October 1627(1627-10-21) (aged 55–56)
Alkmaar, North Holland, Dutch Republic
SpouseVrouwtje Cornelisdr Clock
RelativesCornelis de Houtman (brother)
Occupation
  • Explorer
  • navigator
  • governor
Employer
Expeditions
  • First East Indies expedition
  • Second East Indies expedition

Frederick de Houtman (c. 1571 – 21 October 1627) was a Dutch explorer, navigator, and colonial governor who sailed on the

constellations
.

Career

East Indies

De Houtman was born in

Alauddin Riayat Syah, in northern Sumatra
.

He used his two years of captivity—from September 1599 until August 1601—to study the local Malay language and to make astronomical observations. These observations supplemented those made by Keyser on the first expedition. The constellations formed from their observations were first published in 1597 or 1598 on a globe by Petrus Plancius, and later globes incorporated adjustments based on De Houtman's later observations.[2]

Credit for these constellations is generally assigned jointly to Keyser, De Houtman, and Plancius, though some of the underlying stars were known beforehand.

Australia

In 1619 De Houtman sailed in the

Perth, which they called Dedelsland. After sailing northwards along the coast he encountered and only narrowly avoided a group of shoals, subsequently called the Houtman Abrolhos
.

De Houtman then made landfall in the region known as

See also

  • John Davis
    – English explorer who accompanied De Houtman on the first East Indies' expedition as its pilot

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Kanas 2012, p. 119.
  2. ^ Dekker 1987, pp. 439–470.
  3. ^ De Houtman 1603.
  4. ^ "The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795". huygens.knaw.nl. Huygens ING. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  5. ^ Leupe 1868, pp. 29–32.
  6. ^ Stapel 1937, pp. 11–28.

Bibliography

English


Dutch

  • De Houtman, F. (1603). Spraeck ende woord-boeck (in Dutch). Amsterdam:
    OCLC 68675342
    .

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