Joannes de Laet
Dutch geographer
Joannes or Johannes De Laet was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company. Philip Burden called his History of the New World, "...arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century" and... Wikipedia
Born: 1581, Antwerp, Belgium
Died: December 15, 1649 (age 68 years), The Hague, Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Education: Universiteit Leiden
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