Joannes de Laet

Deceased Person

1581 – 1649

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Who was Joannes de Laet?

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 "...one of the foundation maps of Canada". de Laet was the first to print maps with the names Manhattan, New Amsterdam and Massachusetts.

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Born
1581
Antwerp
Nationality
  • Netherlands
Died
Dec 15, 1649

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on July 23, 2013

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