François Valentijn
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 297 years ago |
Date of birth | April 17,1666 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Dordrecht |
Netherlands | |
Date of died | August 6,1727 |
Died | The Hague |
Netherlands | |
Job | Historian |
Naturalist | |
Explorer | |
Education | Leiden University |
Nationality | Dutch |
Books | Dordrecht, Netherlands |
François Valentijn's Description of Ceylon | |
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ID | 1462143 |
François Valentijn Life story
François Valentyn or Valentijn was a Dutch Calvinist minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën describes the history of the Dutch East India Company while also making notes on geography, ethnography, and natural history; half is about the Moluccas.