Antonio de Abreu
António de Abreu (* around 1480; †?) Was a Portuguese explorer. Under Afonso de Albuquerque , the second governor of Portuguese India , he took part in the conquest of Hormuz in 1507 and Malacca in 1511, in which he was injured. In the same year he started with Francisco Serrão ( Francisco Serrano ) from Malacca with three ships on a voyage of discovery. Abreu created drawings of several of the Lesser Sunda Islands , measured the coast of Java and reached the western Pacific.
Abreu can be considered the European explorer of Timor (1512), Ambon , Seram ( formerly: Ceram ), the Banda Islands and Alor . These discoveries decisively strengthened the Portuguese trading position on the Moluccas (at that time also the Spice Islands ) and the Lesser Sunda Islands. He also described the coast of New Guinea , where he did not land. Only Jorge de Menezes entered the first European to the island in 1526 and is considered Guinea European explorers.
Nothing is known about Abreu's further life.
literature
- Werner P. Lange: South Sea Horizons. A maritime voyage of discovery in Oceania . Urania, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-332-00365-8 .
- Heinrich Pleticha and Hermann Schreiber : The discovery of the world . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-8000-3490-5 .
- Heinrich Pleticha: Atlas of the journeys of discovery . Thienemann, Stuttgart and Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-86503-103-X .
supporting documents
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abreu, António de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese explorer in Southeast Asia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1480 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1512 |