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[[Image:JanVanRiebeckArrival.jpg|thumb|Arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Cape Town painted by |
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'''Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck''' ([[21 April]], [[1619]]–[[18 January]], [[1677]]), was a [[Dutch people| Dutch]] colonial administrator and founder of [[Cape Town]]. He was born in [[Culemborg]] in the Netherlands as the son of a surgeon. He grew up in [[Schiedam]], where he married [[Maria van Riebeeck|Maria Cotze]] on [[28 March]] [[1649]]. (She died in [[Malacca]], now part of [[Malaysia]], on [[2 November]] [[1664]], at the age of 35). The couple had eight sons, one of whom, [[Abraham van Riebeeck]], would become a Governor-General of Dutch East Indies. |
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Joining the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) in [[1639]], he served in a number of posts, including that of an assistant surgeon in the [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] in the [[East Indies]]. He subsequently visited [[Japan]]. His most important position was that of head of the VOC trading post in [[Tonkin]], [[Vietnam]]. However, he was called back from this post as it was discovered that he was conducting trade for his own account. |
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In [[1651]] he was requested to undertake the command of the initial Dutch settlement in the future [[South Africa]]. He landed three ships ''Drommedaris'', ''Reijger'' and ''Goede Hoop'' at the future [[Cape Town]] on [[6 April]] [[1652]] and fortified the site as a way-station for the VOC trade route between the Netherlands and the East Indies. |
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Van Riebeeck was Commander of the Cape from [[1652]] to [[1662]]; he was charged with building a fort, with improving the natural anchorage at Table Bay, planting fruit and vegetables and obtaining livestock from the indigenous [[Khoi]] people. In the [[Kirstenbosch]] Botanical Gardens in Cape Town there is a wild [[almond]] hedge still surviving that was planted on his orders as a barrier. The initial fort was made of mud, clay and timber, and had four corners or bastions. This first fort should not be confused with the present-day Cape Town Castle. The Castle, built between 1666 and 1679, several years after Van Riebeeck's departure, has five bastions and is made of brick, stone and cement. |
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Van Riebeeck reported the first [[comet]] discovered from South Africa, [[C/1652 Y1]], which was spotted on [[December 17]], [[1652]]. |
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He died in Batavia (now renamed [[Jakarta]]) on the island of [[Java (island)|Java]] in [[1677]]. |
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==References== |
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* Collins, Robert O. ''Central and south African history. Topics in world history''. New York: M. Wiener Pub. 1990. ISBN 9781558760172 |
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* Hunt, John, and Heather-Ann Campbell. ''Dutch South Africa: early settlers at the Cape, 1652-1708''. Leicester, UK: Matador 2005. ISBN 9781904744955 |
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* Riebeeck, Jan van, and Robert Kirby. ''The secret letters of Jan van Riebeeck''. London, England: Penguin Books 1992. ISBN 9780140177657 |
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[[Category:Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies|Riebeeck, Jan van]] |
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