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Ambrosius Ehinger

c. 1500–1533 · 16th century · Also known as Ambrosius Alfinger

Ambrosius Ehinger was a German agent of the Welser banking house of Augsburg and the first governor of their colony of Klein-Venedig in Venezuela from 1529. He founded Maracaibo in 1529 and led brutal expeditions inland in search of gold, on one of which he was killed by indigenous warriors in 1533.

Ambrosius Ehinger
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