Pieter Anton Tiele
# Pieter Anton Tiele

Pieter Anton Tiele (18 January 1834, Leiden – 22 January 1889, Utrecht) was for many years the librarian of Utrecht University.

## Life

He was distinguished himself by his bibliographical studies, more especially by his several works on the history of colonization in Asia.

Among these the most noteworthy are: De Opkomst van het nederlandsch Gezag in Oost-Indie (1886); De Vestiging der Portugeezen, in Indie (1873), and other books on the early Portuguese colonization in Maritime Southeast Asia.

## Family

Cornelis Petrus Tiele was his brother.

