Pieter de Carpentier

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Portrait, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Pieter de Carpentier (born February 19, 1586 in Antwerp , † September 5, 1659 in Amsterdam ) was chairman of the Dutch East India Company and served there from 1623 to 1627 as governor general of the Dutch East Indies . His maternal uncle, Louis Delbeecque, was a co-founder of the company.

The discoverer January Carstensz named in 1623 the eastern shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia in his honor Carpentaria .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tammo J. Bezemer: Beknopte Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië . Brill, Leiden 1921 (German: "Encyclopaedic short version of the Dutch East Indies").
personal data
SURNAME Carpentier, Pieter de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1586
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1659
Place of death Amsterdam