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Antonie (given Name)
Antonie is a given name with several origins and uses. In the Dutch language, it is a masculine name derived from Antonius. It is used in areas where Dutch and Afrikaans are spoken. In Czech, Danish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish, it is a feminine name cognate to Antonia. In Romanian, it is a masculine name. Notable persons with the name include: Masculine name * Antonie, Lord of Monaco (died 1427) * Antonie Augustus Bruijn (1842–1890), Dutch navy officer and naturalist * Antonie Claassen (born 1984), South African rugby player * Antonie Dixon (1968–2009), New Zealand criminal * Antonie de Gee (1872–1940), Dutch sports shooter * Antonie Gerrits (1885–1969), Dutch cyclist *Antonie Marinus Harthoorn (1923–2012), Dutch-born South African veterinarian and environmentalist * Antonie Iorgovan (1948–2007), Romanian jurist, professor and politician *Antonie Kamerling (1966–2010), Dutch actor and musician * Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), Dutch scientist *Antonie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, E ..., after its close relatives German language, German and English language, English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Iorgovan
Antonie Iorgovan (9 August 1948 – 4 October 2007) was a Romanian jurist, professor, and politician. He was born in Gornea, Caraș-Severin County, Banat, Socialist Republic of Romania. After attending elementary school in his hometown and two years of high school in Reșița, he enrolled in 1964 in the Military School in Câmpulung, graduating in 1966. His military education was completed at the Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces Academy in Sibiu, where he spent one year. From 1968 to 1972 he attended Law School at the University of Bucharest, followed by a doctorate in law from the same university in 1979. In 1970, he joined the Romanian Communist Party (PCR). In 1973, he joined the law faculty at the University of Bucharest, advancing in rank to full professor by 1993. Additionally, Iorgovan was also a member of the Romanian Senate in the period 1990–1992 as an independent and in 2000–2007 as a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Between 1992 and 1996, he was also a ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Frederik Zürcher
Antonie Frederik Zürcher (2 January 1825 – 15 April 1876) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and art teacher. Zürcher was born in Nieuwer-Amstel as the oldest son of Johannes Cornelis Zurcher in a family of artists.Antonie Frederik Zürcher in the NNBW After his formal training in Amsterdam he became a drawing teacher at the academy there. He married in Amsterdam in 1850 and the couple had 14 children, including the painter Johannes Wilhelm Cornelis Zurcher. After his school was closed he was reassigned a position in Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ..., where he later died. His younger brother Frederik Willem Zürcher was also a painter. References External links Antonie Frederik Zurcheron artnet 1825 births 1876 deaths Painters from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Waterloo
Antonie Waterloo (6 May 1609 – 23 October 1690) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography Waterloo is thought to have been born at Ryssel (Lille), then in the Spanish Netherlands, now part of northern France. His mother was Magdalena Vaillant who became a member of the Walloon Church, Amsterdam in 1621, followed by his own membership in 1630. Little is known of his early life and, as no records of any formal training as an artist have been discovered, he may well have been self taught. Although registered as a painter, he had little success in selling his own canvases and, apparently, supported himself through his activities as an art dealer in addition to sales of his drawings and prints. In 1640 he married in Amsterdam, and in 1653 he left the church and moved to Leeuwarden, but in 1654 he buried a daughter in Amsterdam before moving to Maarssen in 1655 where he lived until 1676. According to Houbraken he was good friends with Jan Weenix who told Houbraken t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Viljoen
Sir Antonie Gysbert Viljoen (21 August 1858 – 26 October 1918) was an influential liberal Afrikaner politician and progressive farmer of the Cape Colony, South Africa. Early life and career Born on August 21, 1858, Viljoen was raised at Middelplaas, Caledon, and was the only one of his 10 siblings to be properly educated, matriculating at the South African College school in Cape Town. He studied medicine eventually at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. He travelled in Europe and studied a range of agricultural practices too. On returning to South Africa, he served as District Surgeon in Caledon, where he met and married his wife Margaretha Johanna Jacoba (Maggie) Beyers. The couple had three daughters, Maria Elizabeth Anna (who died at age 8 years), Johanna Jakobmina Kurgerina (Hannah) (married to Rawbone), and Oaklene Savoye Marguerite (married to Hewat). Elgin farming (1898–1918) In the 1880s he lived and worked in the Transvaal Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Schouten
Antoine Schouten (born 25 December 1946) is a Canadian former field hockey player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 P .... References External links * 1946 births Living people Canadian male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players of Canada Field hockey players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Field hockey players at the 1975 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games {{Canada-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Vodă Din Popești
Antonie din Popeşti (? – after 1672) was ruler of Wallachia from March 1669 to 1672. Antonie din Popeşti, a member of a boyar family, came to power with the assistance of the Cantacuzino family, who had supported Radu Leon, the previous ruler, until he turned against them in late 1668. The Cantacuzino's support for Antonie din Popeşti formed part of their struggle with the Ghica family. He was deposed in March 1672 on the orders of Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, who was persuaded to restore the former ruler and Ghica family candidate, Grigore I Ghica Grigore I Ghica (1628 – 1675), a member of the Ghica family, was Prince of Wallachia between September 1660 and December 1664 and again between March 1672 and November 1673. His father was George Ghica, ruler of Moldavia (1658–59) and rule .... Rulers of Wallachia 17th-century monarchs in Europe {{Romania-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Plămădeală
Antonie Plămădeală (; 17 November 1926 in Stolniceni, Lăpușna County, Bessarabia, Kingdom of Romania – 29 August 2005 in Sibiu) was a high-level hierarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Transylvania (1982–2005). Born Leonida Plămădeală, he received the name of Antonie when he was tonsured a monk in 1948. He was friends with the Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica Constantin Noica (; – 4 December 1987) was a Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet. His preoccupations were throughout all philosophy, from epistemology, philosophy of culture, axiology and philosophic anthropology to ontology and logics, ..., and spoke at his funeral. References Romanian Orthodox metropolitan bishops Honorary members of the Romanian Academy People from Hîncești District 1926 births 2005 deaths {{Romania-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Sminck Pitloo
Antonie or Anton Sminck Pitloo (21 April or 8 May 1790 – 22 June 1837) was a Dutch painter. His surname was originally Pitlo, but he added the extra "o" because he was often mistaken for an Italian while resident in Italy. In Italian he is also known as Antonio van Pitloo. Biography Pitloo was born in Arnhem. He started studying painting first at Paris and then at Rome, where there was already an international artistic colony, in 1811. He took advantage of a scholarship offered by Louis Bonaparte, the King of Holland. In 1815, after the fall of Bonaparte, the scholarship payments ceased. He was then invited to Naples by the Russian diplomat and art connoisseur Count Grigory Vladimirovich Orloff (1777 – 22 June 1826). In 1816, Pitloo won, in a public competition, the post of professor of landscape at the Neapolitan Academy. Lord Napier lauded him as a landscape painter: his manner is not very careful or scholastic, but full of sensibility. His pencil is always true to genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Pannekoek
Antonie “Anton” Pannekoek (; 2 January 1873 – 28 April 1960) was a Dutch astronomer, philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism (Dutch: ''radencommunisme''). Biography Pannekoek studied mathematics and physics in Leiden from 1891. Even before he went to college he was interested in astronomy and studied the Milky Way and variability of Polaris. He published his first article, ''On the Necessity of Further Researches on the Milky Way'', as a student. He briefly worked as a geodesist before he returned to the Leiden Observatory (''Leidse Sterrewacht'') to work as an observer and write his thesis on the variability of Algol. After reading Edward Bellamy's '' Equality'', Pannekoek became a convinced socialist and started studying the philosophies of Karl Marx and Joseph Dietzgen. Soon Pannekoek became a well-known Marxist writer, writing for both Dutch and German socialist magazines, like '' Die Neue Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob Van Omphal
Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob Baron van Omphal (2 May 1788 – 8 July 1863) was a Dutch lieutenant-general and extraordinary aide-de-camp to William III of the Netherlands. He was awarded a knighthood in the Military William Order among other honours. Family background Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob van Omphal was born on 2 May 1788 in Tiel in the Dutch Republic. He was a son of Diederik van Omphal, lord of IJzendoorn (1752–1813), and his second wife Wilhelmina Anna Cornelia de Pagniet (1765–1806). His father and grandfather had been officers in the service of the Dutch States Army, the forces of the ''Staten-Generaal''. His ancestor Jacob von Omphal (1500–1557) was ennobled by the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. Van Omphal himself was made a baron in 1834; he died, unmarried, in 1863, and his line came to an end. Military career Van Omphal began his active service during the Kingdom of Holland. Part of the Dutch expeditionary force to Spain, he participated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Misset
Antonie Misset (14 January 1901 – 1 November 1974) was a Dutch wrestler Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat spor .... He competed in the Greco-Roman light heavyweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1901 births 1974 deaths Olympic wrestlers of the Netherlands Wrestlers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Dutch male sport wrestlers Sportspeople from The Hague {{Netherlands-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
