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Peter Stuyvesant
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Dutch politician; director-general of New Netherland (1612-1672)
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Willem Kieft
- Succeeded by
- Richard Nicolls (as Governor of New York )
- Born
- c. 1610 , Peperga , Friesland , Dutch Republic
- Died
- August 1672 (1672-08-00) (aged 61–62), Manhattan , Province of New York
- Resting place
- St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
- Spouse
- Judith Bayard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1645 )
- Relations
- See Stuyvesant family
- Children
- Balthasar Lazarus Stuyvesant, Nicolaes Willem Stuyvesant
- Parent s
- Balthazar Jansz Stuyvesant, Margaretha van Hardenstein
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
- Place of birth
- Weststellingwerf
- Place of death
- New Amsterdam
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- University of Franeker
- Employer
- University of Franeker
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Religion
- Reformed Christianity
- Image
- Petrus (Peter Pieter) Stuyvesant portrait c1660.jpg
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- Commons category
- Peter Stuyvesant
- date of birth
- 1612-01-01
- date of death
- 1672-01-01
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- wears
- pegleg
- present in work
- A History of New York
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Encyclopedic overview
Stuyvesant Coat of Arms
Peter Stuyvesant (c. 1610 – August 1672) was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as the director-general of New Netherland from 1647 to 1664, when the colony was provisionally ceded to the Kingdom of England. He was a major figure in the history of New York City and his name has been given to various landmarks and points of interest throughout the city (e.g. Stuyvesant High School, Stuyvesant Town, Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, etc.).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peter Stuyvesant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.