François Valentijn
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 298 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 17,1666 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Dordrecht |
| Netherlands | |
| Date of died | August 6,1727 |
| Died | The Hague |
| Netherlands | |
| Job | Historian |
| Naturalist | |
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| Education | Leiden University |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Books | Dordrecht, Netherlands |
| François Valentijn's Description of Ceylon | |
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| ID | 1462143 |
François Valentijn Life story
François Valentyn or Valentijn was a Dutch Calvinist minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën describes the history of the Dutch East India Company while also making notes on geography, ethnography, and natural history; half is about the Moluccas.