Pieter van den Broecke

Pieter van den Broecke (25 February 1585, Antwerp – 1 December 1640, Strait of Malacca) was a Dutch cloth merchant in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and one of the first Dutchmen to taste coffee.^[1] He also went to Angola three times. He was one of the first Europeans to describe societies in West and Central Africa and in detail trade strategies along the African coast.^[2]

^ "De VOCsite : handelsposten; Mocca". Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
^ "La Fleur, J.D., ed. Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola, 1605-1612". Retrieved 17 July 2008.

[vocsite1-1] "De VOCsite : handelsposten; Mocca". Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2008.

[2] "La Fleur, J.D., ed. Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola, 1605-1612". Retrieved 17 July 2008.

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