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Bijlsma
Bijlsma is a hybrid Dutch- Frisian metonymic originally meaning "axe man". Documented origins involve a carpenter and butcher. at the Meertens Institute
The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of ... Dutch surname database. People with this surname, often spelled Bylsma abroad, include:
* Anner Bijlsma (1 ...
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Johannes Bijlsma
Johannes Bijlsma is a Dutch philosopher and endowed professor of philosophy of criminal law (Leo Polak chair) at the University of Groningen. He is also associate professor of criminal law at Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of .... Bijlsma is known for his works on criminal law and criminology and is a winner of the 2018 Modderman Prize for his PhD dissertation. References External links * Living people 21st-century Dutch philosophers Academic staff of the University of Groningen Academic staff of Utrecht University Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni Dutch criminologists {{Netherlands-philosopher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrit Bijlsma
Gerrit Wiebe Bijlsma (17 November 1929 – 13 August 2004) was a Dutch water polo player. He was part of the Dutch teams that won the European title in 1950 and placed fifth at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in .... References 1929 births 2004 deaths Dutch male water polo players Olympic water polo players for the Netherlands Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bandung 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-waterpolo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anner Bijlsma
Anner Bylsma (born Anne Bijlsma; 17 February 1934 – 25 July 2019) was a Dutch cellist who played on both modern and period instruments in a historically informed style. He took an interest in music from an early age. He studied with Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and won the ''Prix d'excellence'' in 1957. In 1959, he won the first prize in the Pablo Casals Competition in Mexico. By 1961, he was using a new spelling of his first and last names for recordings and performances at the suggestion of his manager. For six years, from 1962 to 1968, he was the principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He became an Erasmus Scholar at Harvard University in 1982. He was the author of the book ''Bach, the Fencing Master'', a stylistic and aesthetic analysis of Bach's cello suites. He was one of the pioneers of the "Dutch Baroque School" and rose to fame as a partner of Frans Brüggen and Gustav Leonhardt, who toured extensively together and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carine Bijlsma
Carine Bijlsma (born February 16, 1983) is a Dutch documentary filmmaker and photographer. Education After graduating high school she studied photography in New York, Florence, and Amsterdam. She graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 2008. Awards Her films have won several awards, including an honorable mention in the Short Documentary Award category at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival and the Wildcard. Personal life Bijlsma is the daughter of cellist Anner Bylsma and violinist Vera Beths, and the maternal half-sister of actress Katja Herbers. Selected filmography * ‘’ Devil’s Pie - D’Angelo (2019) D’Angelo Questlove Dave Chappelle Alan Leeds’’ * ''The Secret of Boccherini'' (2008) on Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma and composer Luigi Boccherini * ''Middle School Melodies'' (2009) * ''Soloist'' (2010) on violinist Rosanne Philippens * ''Extase'' (2011) on conductor Reinbert de Leeuw's 2010 performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bylsma
Bylsma or Bijlsma is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anner Bylsma (1934–2019), Dutch cellist * Dan Bylsma (born 1970), former American hockey player and former head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins * John Bylsma (born 1948), Australian cyclist * Jim Bylsma. ( born 1954) high school football coach in Wisconsin See also * Bijlsma Bijlsma is a hybrid Dutch- Frisian metonymic originally meaning "axe man". Documented origins involve a carpenter and butcher. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Frisian Language
West Frisian (; ), or simply Frisian ( ; ), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland () in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisians, Frisian ancestry. It is the most widely spoken of the Frisian languages. In the study of the evolution of English language, English, West Frisian is notable as being the most closely related foreign tongue to the various dialects of Old English spoken across the Heptarchy, these being part of the Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic family. Name The name "West Frisian" is only used outside the Netherlands, to distinguish this language from the closely related Frisian languages of East Frisian language, East Frisian, including Saterland Frisian language, Saterland Frisian, and North Frisian language, North Frisian spoken in Germany. Within the Netherlands, however, "West Frisian" refers to the West Frisian Dutch, West Frisian dialect of the Dutch language while the We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metonymy
Metonymy () is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something associated with that thing or concept. For example, the word " suit" may refer to a person from groups commonly wearing business attire, such as salespeople or attorneys. Etymology The words ''metonymy'' and ''metonym'' come ; , a suffix that names figures of speech, . Background Metonymy and related figures of speech are common in everyday speech and writing. Synecdoche and metalepsis are considered specific types of metonymy. Polysemy, the capacity for a word or phrase to have multiple meanings, sometimes results from relations of metonymy. Both metonymy and metaphor involve the substitution of one term for another. In metaphor, this substitution is based on some specific analogy between two things, whereas in metonymy the substitution is based on some understood association or contiguity. American literary theorist Kenneth Burke considers metonymy as one of four "master tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meertens Institute
The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ... is a research institute which studies and documents language and culture in the Netherlands as well as Dutch language and culture throughout the world. The institute is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' or KNAW). Its two departments are ''Ethnology and oral culture'', which studies and documents culture of everyday life in the Netherlands from an international, comparative, and historical perspective, and ''Language variation'', which studies and documents language, language variation and language change in the Netherlands, as well as Dutch languages in the world. History The instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
