Abraham Bogaert

Abraham Bogaert (October 7, 1663, Amsterdam - December 1, 1727, Amsterdam) was a pharmacist, author and poet who played a major role in the rebellion of the Free Burghers against the government of Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, while also writing poems about this uprising and life at the Cape.

Joris Van Eijnatten said Bogaert was "The Dutch translator of the Turkish spy (was) Abraham Bogaert (1663-1727), an apothecary and man of letters who travelled widely in the service of the East India Company, and later published an account of his travels along the Asian coast."

In 1683 he married and thereafter he served as a ship's doctor in the service of the East India Company. He visited Siam in 1690. In 1701 he was already undertaking his third voyage to the East in his post as chief physician, where he made his way to the Cape in July 1702. From there he went to Batavia where he was the chief physician and later became a merchant. As a merchant, he traveled through Bengal, Ceylon and India. On his return to Holland he re-entered the Cape in 1706 and took the famous petition of Adam Tas, against the government of Willem Adriaan van der Stel, on April 4, 1706, to Holland. As an artist he drew various Cape scenes during his stay. Provided by Wikipedia