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About Pieter Dircksz. Hasselaer
Pieter Dircksz. Hasselaar was an Amsterdam brewer and schepen (alderman), and one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company. He is famous, along with his aunt Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, for courageous actions during the siege of Haarlem in 1573. In 1578, after the Alteratie, he moved to Amsterdam and by 1583 was manager of the brewery of Andries Boelens. In 1587 he bought a brewery, the Eagle, between Nieuwendijk and Prins Hendrikkade.
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- official, brewer
- Position held
- alderman
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
- Born
- 1554
- Died
- August 1616