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Catharina
Catharina is a feminine given name, the Dutch and Swedish spelling of the name Catherine. In the Netherlands, people use a great number of short forms in daily life, including ''Carine'', ''Catelijne'', ''Cato'', ''Ina'', ''Ineke'', ''Kaat'', ''Kaatje'', ''Karen'', ''Karin'', ''Katja'', ''Katrien'', ''Katrijn'', ''Kitty'', ''Nienke'', ''Rina'', ''Tineke'', ''Tiny'', ''Toos'', ''Trijn'', ''Trijntje'', and many others. People with the name include: Academics, science * Catharina C.J.H. "Catrien" Bijleveld (born 1958), Dutch criminologist * Catharina Halkes (1920–2011), Dutch theologian and feminist * Catharina Jantina "Catherine" de Jong (born 1956), Dutch anesthesiologist, drug rehab physician and intensivist * Catharina Geertruida "Catrien" Santing (born 1958), Dutch medievalist * Catharina Stroppel (born 1971), German mathematician * A.P. Catharina "Catharine" van Tussenbroek (1852–1925), Dutch physician and feminist Arts * Catharina Ahlgren (1734–c. 1800), Swedish feminist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Backer
Catharina Backer (22 September 1689 – 8 February 1766) was an art collector and an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography Catharina Backer was born in Amsterdam in 1689. Her parents were the lawyer Willem Cornelisz. Backer (1656–1731), of a prominent Amsterdam family, and Magdalena de la Court (1662–1712), the daughter of Pieter de la Court (1618–85) and his second wife, Catharina van der Voort (1622–1674). Catharina Backer married her first cousin, the merchant and art collector Allard de la Court (1688–1755) of Leiden, on 25 August 1711. He was the son of Pieter de la Court van der Voort (1664–1739), Magdalena de la Court's brother. Allard de la Court and Catharina Backer lived in a house on the Rapenburg in Leiden. Their children included Pieter Allardsz de la Court (1722–73). Catharina Backer died in Leiden in 1766. Art collection Together Allard de la Court and Catharina Backer owned one of the richest art galleries in the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Questiers
Catharina Questiers (21 November 16313 February 1669) was a Dutch poet and dramatist. Along with Cornelia van der Veer and Katharyne Lescailje she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the 17th century. Her brother David also achieved some note as a poet. Family Catharina Questiers was born and died in Amsterdam. Her parents were Salomon Davidsz. Questiers (1590–1636) and Elisabeth Jan (1593–1660). The family originally came from the Flemish Ypres. Her father had a thriving plumbing business in Amsterdam Warmoesstraat. Catherine was the youngest of 6 children born in the house,Nozeman Malou, Catharina Questiers, in: Online Dictionary of the Netherlands.06/10/2011 and was suspected to come from a Roman Catholic background. However, it was unusual for those who practice Catholicism to leave Catholic Brabant and move to Amsterdam, so their religious background is questionable. Her father's business made their family relatively wealthy, so they had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Hooft
Catharina Pietersdr Hooft (28 December 1618 – 30 September 1691) was a woman of the Dutch Golden Age. She became famous at a very early age, when she was painted by Frans Hals. At the age of sixteen she married Cornelis de Graeff, nineteen years her senior and the most powerful regent and mayor of Amsterdam. Thus she became ''first lady of Soestdijk'', one of the family's country houses. Catharina Hooft was also a Lady of the '' High and free Fief of Purmerland and Ilpendam''. Life Catharina Hooft was born in Amsterdam. Her father, Pieter Jansz Hooft, was a nephew of the Amsterdam mayor Cornelis Pietersz. Hooft and related to the renowned P. C. Hooft of the Muiderslot – a wealthy patrician. Her mother, Geertruid Overlander (sister of Volkert Overlander), was forty-one and she and her husband had given up hope of having children when Catharina was born. On 14 August 1635, at the age of sixteen, Catharina married Cornelis de Graeff, an older widower, whose first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Ahlgren
Catharina Ahlgren (1734 – c. 1800) was a Swedish proto- feminist poet and publisher, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden. She was the publisher and chief editor of a number of different women's periodicals in Stockholm and in Finland between 1772 and 1783, and the publisher of the first periodical (as well as the first one by a woman) in Finland ''Om konsten att rätt behaga'' (1782).Henrika Zilliacus-Tikkanen: När könet började skriva – Kvinnor i finländsk press 1771–1900 (English: When gender started to write - women in Finnish media 1771-1900) She is also known for her correspondence with Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht.Carl Forsstrand : Sophie Hagman och hennes samtida. Några anteckningar från det gustavianska Stockholm. (English: Sophie Hagman and her contemporaries. Notes from Stockholm during the Gustavian age") Second edition. Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm (1911) Ahlgren was a leading person in the Swedish "female literary worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Van Hemessen
Caterina or Catharina van Hemessen (1528 – after 1565) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work. She is mainly known for a series of small-scale female portraits completed between the late 1540s and early 1550s and a few religious compositions.Jones, 136 Van Hemessen is often given the distinction of creating the first self-portrait of an artist (of either gender) depicted seated at an easel. This portrait, created in 1548, shows the artist in the early stages of painting a portrait and is now part of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel.Kemperdick, 15 Other paintings by van Hemessen are in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and in the National Gallery, London. A number of obstacles stood in the way of women of her time who wished to become painters. Their training would involve both the dissection of cadavers and the study of the nude male figure while the system of apprenticeship meant that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Regina Von Greiffenberg
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (7 September 1633, Viehdorf — 10 April 1694, Nuremberg) was an Austrian poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ... of the Baroque era. Greiffenberg is one of the most significant German-language writers of the early modern era. Her work is regularly profoundly personal, often taking the form of an internal monologue Further reading * * * * Martin Bircher (ed.): ''Sämtliche Werke in 10 Bänden''. Millwood NY 1983 * Joy A. Schroeder, "The Prenatal Theology of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg.” ''Lutheran Forum'' 46/3 (2012):50-56. * Lynne Tatlock (ed. and tr.), ''Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg: Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ'' (Chicago, 2009) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe). * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Van Knibbergen
Catharina Knibbergen was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography According to the RKD she was influenced by Bartholomeus Breenbergh and was perhaps the daughter of the painter François van Knibbergen (born 1596/97).Catharina Knibbergen in the RKD However, in a 1634 poem Pieter Nootmans already called her the ''vermaarde kunstrijke schilderes'' ("famous artful painter") '' Juffrouw Catharina van Knibbergen'', suggesting a birth in the 1610s at the latest.Marloes Huiskamp Knibbergen, Catharina in: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Both-van Der Eem
''Catharina Both van der Eem'' is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1620 and now in Louvre Museum. It is considered a pendant portrait to the ''Portrait of Paulus van Beresteyn'', in the same museum. Painting Similar to Hals' '' Portrait of a Woman Standing'' in Chatsworth House, this woman is wearing a wedding ring on her right forefinger, a figure-eight collar and lace wrist collars with gold bracelets. Her bodice is a richly embroidered Dutch wedding stomacher, and a heavy gold chain draped through a vlieger, rests on a wheel-shaped fardegalijn. Her diadem cap lacks wings and is more similar to the cap worn by Hals's unknown sitter ''Portrait of a Woman Standing'' (Kassel) and by his brewer Aletta Hannemans. Her portrait was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:155. CATHARINA BOTH VAN DER EEM, wife of Paulus Beresteyn. B. 10; M. 16. Three-quarter-length, life size. She is turned three-quarters left. She wears a lace cap, and a ruff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Catharina Hooghsaet
''Portrait of Catharina Hooghsaet (1607–1685)'' is a 1657 painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt. Painting This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1915, who wrote:652. CATHARINA HOOGHSAET (1607 -after 1657). Sm. 546. and Suppl. 32; Bode 247; Dut. 216; Wb. 234; B.-HdG. 454. Full length; life size. She sits in an arm-chair, on which both her arms are stretched out; she is turned to the left and looks in that direction. She holds a handkerchief in her right hand. She wears the black gown of a citizen's wife, with a plain flat white collar and a white cap, covering her hair, which is smoothly combed back. Beside her. to the left is a table with a Turkish carpet having a red pattern. Above the table a metal ring with a parrot hangs from a bracket fixed to the wall. In even daylight. Dark background. Signed to the left at top on two labels on the wall-bracket, "Catrina Hooghsaet, out 50 jaer, Rembrandt 1657"; canvas, 49 1/2inches by 38 1/2 inches. Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Pratten
Catharina Josepha Pratten (15 November 1824 – 10 October 1895) was a German guitar virtuoso, composer and teacher, also known as Madame Sidney Pratten. She was born Catharina Josepha Pelzer in Mülheim on the 15 November 1824,see Nicoletta Confalone in "il Fronimo" n.181, Jan. 2018, who at p.21, note 3. refers about the discovery by Ulrich Wedemeier of the birth certificate the daughter of the German guitarist and music teacher Ferdinand Pelzer. On 24 September 1854, she married the flautist Robert Sidney Pratten Robert Sidney Pratten (1824–1868), was an English flautist. He played first flute for the Royal Italian Opera, English Opera, the Sacred Harmonic Society, Philharmonic, and other concerts and musical festivals. Pratten was born on 23 January 1 .... She died on 10 October 1895. She is buried at Brompton Cemetery, London. Her guitar was advertised for sale in '' The Times'' in "splendid condition" in 1939. References External links * 1824 births 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Irma Dessaur
Andreas Burnier, born Catharina Irma Dessaur (3 July 1931 – 18 September 2002) was a Dutch writer. Burnier has published poetry, lectures, books and articles, many of which address homosexuality, in order to emphasize women's problems in a male-dominated society. Literary debut Burnier debuted in the literary magazine ''Tirade'' with her story ''Verschrikkingen van het Noorden''. Along with assuming a new name as a writer, Burnier also assumed the opposite gender. In 1965, she published her first novel, ''Een tevreden lach'' (the title of which translates as something like "A Contented Laugh"). In it she wrote about her homosexuality, a topic that had previously not been widely discussed in Dutch literature. She did not mean to publish this novel at first as she wrote it for herself due to the need of reflection, and she deemed it unfit for publication, but after coming into contact with a manager who worked at Querido, who wanted to read it, it became published. ''Een tevrede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Stroppel
Catharina Stroppel (born 1971) is a German mathematician whose research concerns representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Bonn, and vice-coordinator of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn... Education and Career Stroppel earned a diploma in mathematics and theology from the University of Freiburg in 1998. She completed her doctorate, also from the University of Freiburg, in 2001, under the supervision of Wolfgang Soergel. After short-term positions at the University of Leicester and Aarhus University, she joined the University of Glasgow as a research associate in 2004, and was promoted to lecturer in 2005 and reader in 2007. In 2008 she moved to Bonn as a professor. Awards and honors In 2007, the London Mathematical Society awarded Stroppel their Whitehead Prize "for her contributions to representation theory, in particular in the framework of categorifications and its application ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
