Adriaen Maertensz Block

Adriaen Maertensz Block

Adriaen Maertensz Block (c.1582, Gouda - 7 March 1661, Lisse) was successively captain, commander, and governor of the Ambon Island between 1614-1617, administrator of the "raad in Indië" for the Kamer of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam (VOC) in Batavia. In 1627 two of his ships wrecked on the island Wight in a storm. He probably intended to go there to buy secretely and trade privately. [IJzerman, J.W. (1923) Cornelis Buijsero te Bantam. 1616-1618. Zijn brieven en journaal, met inleiding en bijlagen, p. 168-170.] He was suspended and declared unsuitable for other similar offices, and retired in a country house at Lisse, what is now Kasteel Keukenhof. In his inventory were many books listed on navigation and history: Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Hugo de Groot, Justus Lipsius, Lieuwe van Aitzema, Plutarch, Tacitus. [Hulkenberg, A.M. (1975) Keukenhof. Uitgave van de Historische Vereniging Holland, p. 49-51. ]

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