Jeronimus Cornelisz

Person Or Being In Fiction

1598 – 1629

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Who was Jeronimus Cornelisz?

Jeronimus Cornelisz was a Frisian apothecary and Dutch East India Company merchant. In June 1629 he led one of the bloodiest mutinies in history after the merchant ship Batavia was wrecked in the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of coral islands off the west coast of Australia.

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Born
1598
Netherlands
Lived in
  • Leeuwarden
Died
Oct 2, 1629

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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