Pieter Both

Timeline

1. 1583–1587Utrecht · UtrechtIn the mid-1580s, Boet received an education in law and the humanities in his hometown of Utrecht, laying the intellectual foundation for his later career in the commercial and colonial administration of the Republic.
2. 1588–1590Amsterdam · AmsterdamAfter 1588, Bot went to Amsterdam to undertake an internship in overseas trade and business management, becoming familiar with the spice trade, shipping insurance, and the financing of colonial ventures, and gradually rising into the Republic's emerging commercial elite.
3. 1590Amsterdam · AmsterdamAround 1590, Bot participated in the Republic's commercial ventures on the eastern spice routes, accumulating practical experience and a network of contacts for his later colonial administrative posts after the founding of the Dutch East India Company in 1602.