Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563, Haarlem – 8 February 1611, Enkhuizen) is a Dutch Protestant merchant, traveler and historian.

An alternate spelling of his second name is Huijgen.

He is credited with copying top-secret Portuguese nautical maps thus enabling the passage to the elusive East Indies to be opened to the English and the Dutch.

This enables the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company to break the 16th century monopoly enjoyed by the Portuguese on trade with the East Indies.

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