biography
pronunciation:
[stiyvesant]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1592–1672)
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| biography:
| Dutch administrator, born in Scherpenzeel, The Netherlands. He became Governor of Curaçao, and from 1646 directed the New Netherland colony. He proved a vigorous but arbitrary ruler, a rigid sabbatarian, and an opponent of political and religious freedom, but did much for the commercial prosperity of New Amsterdam until his reluctant surrender to the English in 1664. |
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