Joris van Spilbergen
Joris van Spilbergen (also Spielbergen; * 1568 in Antwerp , † 1620 in Bergen op Zoom ) was a Dutch navigator .
Spilbergen was first midshipman , stationed at Fort Rammekens , Western Europe's oldest Seefort on the peninsula Walcheren in the Dutch province of Zeeland . He then hired himself as a merchant in Middelburg , but went bankrupt and therefore went into the service of Balthazar de Moucheron , for whom he first went to Africa , where de Moucheron was looking for a landing stage for his ships. In search of a suitable place, he and his team conquered the island of Príncipe from the Portuguese in 1598 , which he was only able to hold briefly. In 1601 he took three de Moucherons to India and landed on Ceylon , where he became friends with King Vimala Dharma Suriya of Kandy .
In 1604 Spilbergen returned to the Netherlands. In 1607 he served under Jacob van Heemskerk , who in the battle of Gibraltar had the order to destroy a Spanish fleet lying there, ready for departure. Spilbergen was the organizer here.
From 1614 to 1617 Spilbergen traveled around the world with a fleet of six ships on behalf of the Dutch East India Company . To do this, he embarked in Holland to go via the Canary Islands , São Vicente on the South American coast and the Magellan Strait on the west coast of South America up to today's Gulf of California . From there he traveled to Java . Spilbergen reached Java around the same time that Schouten and Le Maire arrived in Asia. The two were interned on the orders of the East India Company, as they were accused of violating the company's trading monopoly. Then they came under the command of Admiral Spilbergen. In 1617 Spielbergen returned with two ships.
In 1617 he settled in Bergen op Zoom ( North Holland ) with modest savings, where he bought the little house Het Wolfken in the Lange Potterstraat . In the same year he published a treatise on his journey. When he died in January 1620, he was buried in the Grote Kerk in Bergen op Zoom.
There is a Van Spilbergenstraat in various parts of the Netherlands and what is now Belgium, but not in Bergen op Zoom.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://ssl.kundenserver.de/maps-n-views.com/landkarten/lk_gross/lg_3566_e.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Brief description of the trip in English and map of the trip
literature
- Friedrich Ratzel : Spilbergen, Georg von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 185 f.
Web links
- Bielefeld University Library Fully retrievable edition of Spilbergen's treatise on his circumnavigation of the East and West Indies spieghel: what in Beschreven are de twee laetste navigatien, ghedaen inde jaeren 1614, 1615, 1616, 1617 end 1618 in the edition 't Amstelredam: Jan Janssz, 1621
- Cards in large format, Tarnaten, Maggellaens [also relating to Georg von Spielbergen's operations] . 1601-1627. Digitized version of the Badische Landesbibliothek urn : nbn: de: bsz: 31-51762
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spilbergen, Joris van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spielbergen, Joris van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch navigator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1568 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1620 |
| Place of death | Bergen op Zoom |