Wolter Broese van Groenou
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Wolter Broese van Groenou | |
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| Born | 2 January 1842 Apeldoorn, Netherlands |
| Died | 27 October 1924 (aged 82) Den Haag, Netherlands |
| Citizenship | Dutch |
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| Father | Mien van Wulfften Palthe, Dolf Broese van Groenou, Wolter Broese van Groenou |
Wolter Broese van Groenou (2 January 1842 – 27 October 1924) was a Dutch businessman who was the owner of the Tandjong Tirto sugar plantation near Djokjakarta.[1]
Wolter Broese van Groenou was born in Apeldoorn on 2 January 1842, as the son of Arend Joachims Broese van Groenou and Wilhelmina Stefania Albertina Jalink.[2][3][4]
On 14 May 1874, the 32-year-old Broese van Groenou married Jeanetta Emilia Wieseman (1854–1931) at Yogyakarta, Dutch East Indies,[3] and the couple had six children, including Mien van Wulfften Palthe, who went on to became a feminist and pacifist,[5] Dolf Broese van Groenou, who participated in the architecture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics,[6] and Wolter Broese van Groenou, who together with Dolf played football for HVV Den Haag at the turn of the century, with both starting in the 1899 KNVB Cup final.[7]