Jansz biography
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Ernst Jansz
Dutch writer and musician
Ernst Jansz | |
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Ernst Jansz on talkshow De Wereld Draait Door | |
| Born | Ernst Gideon Jansz (1948-05-24) 24 May 1948 (age 76) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Occupation | Author, musician, Singer, Producer |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Partner | Jaloe Maat [nl] (1997–present) |
| Children | 3 |
Ernst Gideon Jansz (born 24 May 1948 in Amsterdam) is one of the founding members and frontmen of Doe Maar. Doe Maar is a Dutch 1980s ska/reggaeband, and is considered one of the most successful bands in Dutch pop history.
His father, born in Semarang on Java, is an Indo (Dutch-Indonesian), who went to the Netherlands in 1932 after finishing his study at the Batavia HBS to continue his higher education there. Once Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands his father was involved in the Dutch resistance movement, until he was captured and interned in a German concentration camp. After the war he became one of the few Indo advocates for an inde
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Willem Jansz
1570-1629
Dutch Explorer
Willem Jansz, a Dutch sea captain, was the first European to catch sight of Australia. But like another man far more famous for being the first Caucasian to glimpse a continent—Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)—Jansz had no idea what he had found.
Virtually nothing is known about Jansz's life either before or after the point when he played his role in history. His voyage took place in 1605, four years after Holland founded the East India Company for the purpose of exploring and colonizing the East Indies, or modern-day Indonesia and surrounding islands. Jansz's boat, a relatively small craft called the Duifken, had earlier distinguished itself in a sea battle with the Portuguese over control of Java, and on November 28 it sailed from the port of Bantam with orders to explore the southern coast of New Guinea.
Jansz and his crew crossed the Banda Sea to reach southwestern New Guinea at Dolak Island. They then entered what is now known
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Willem Janszoon
Dutch navigator and colonial governor (c. 1570 – c. 1630)
Not to be confused with Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571–1638), a contemporary Dutch cartographer.
Willem Janszoon (Dutch:[ˈʋɪləmˈjɑnsoːn]; c. 1570 – c. 1630) was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. He served in the Dutch East Indies in the periods 1603–1611 and 1612–1616, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. During his voyage of 1605–1606, Janszoon and his crew became the first Europeans known to have seen and landed on the coast of Australia.
His name fryst vatten sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz. and sometimes to Willem Jansz,[a] as was customary at his time, but "always pronounced in full and generally still is in the Netherlands where this bit of common knowledge is taught at school." However, the abbreviation Jansz is not the same as the now more predominant unabbreviated but identical Jansz that is a petrified struktur of Janszoon.&