title: Pieter Anton Tiele
text: # 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.
  
  