Early Years
Verbeck was born in Zeist, Netherlands as the 6th of eighth children in a Moravian family. As a young man, he studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Utrecht in hopes of becoming an engineer. At Zeist he grew up speaking Dutch, German, French and English.
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