Editing Jonas Bronck (section)

==Descendants and relations==
Pieter Bronck also was known as Pieter Jonasson Bronck. Given the relative closeness in age and same father's name indicated by the patronym (Jonas was born about 1600, Pieter, born in 1616 in Jönköping, Sweden) it has been claimed that Pieter was a nephew or cousin to Jonas Bronck, and not a son as had been surmised.<ref name = Komstad/> This would however in both cases mean that Jonas Bronck or his father Jonas have had a living brother with identical name, something which is unheard of in Scandinavian naming. They might instead have been brothers, as an age difference of 16 years among even full siblings is far from unlikely. Still he has been described as the "poorer cousin", and is believed to have emigrated to [[Beverwijck]] in the [[Hudson Valley]] circa 1650.<ref>{{cite news | title = Bronck Family: The First Generations | work = Hudson Valley Mercantile | url = http://www.hvmercantile.com/2013/02/the-bronck-family-the-first-generations/ | access-date = June 11, 2014 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141102210335/http://www.hvmercantile.com/2013/02/the-bronck-family-the-first-generations/ | archive-date = November 2, 2014 }}</ref> The [[Pieter Bronck House]] is a [[List of Registered Historic Places in Greene County, New York|registered historic place]] in [[Coxsackie (town), New York|Coxsackie, New York]]. The American poet [[William Bronk]] reported that he was a descendant of Pieter Bronck.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bronk/katzman.htm |title=Excerpts from "At Home in the Unknown," a 1996 Bronk Interview with Mark Katzman |first=Mark |last=Katzman |publisher=[[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] |access-date=June 14, 2014}}</ref> The American biophysicist (and president of Rockefeller University) [[Detlev Bronk]] claimed to have been a Bronck descendant, but no evidence of lineage to Pieter's line was ever found or indicated.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19751119&id=9tNQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5684,3204966 |work=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |title=Detlev Wulf Bronk, one of founders of modern biophysics |date=November 19, 1975 }}</ref>