Hendrik van Rheede, Dutch botanist (died 1691)

Hendrik van Rheede

Dutch military officer and colonial administrator

Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein was a Dutch military officer and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. Between 1669 and 1676 he served as a governor of Dutch Malabar at Kochi and employed twenty-five people on his book Hortus Malabaricus, describing…