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.

[1] 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.

"[2] In 1683 he married and thereafter he served as a ship's doctor in the service of the East India Company.

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.

In 1711, at the appearance of the Contra-accusation in which Adam Tas and Jakob van der Heiden refuted all the accusations of Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, he wrote eighteenth century fashion an introductory verse for their book, Op de Contradeductie der Kaapsche Voort, edited by Jakob van der Heiden, and Adam Tas.