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Dolf (other)
Dolf is a Dutch masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Adolf, which may refer to: * Dolf Brouwers (1912–1997), Dutch comedian, singer, and television actor * Dolf Jansen (born 1963), comedian, presenter of the Radio 2 program ''Spijkers met Koppen'' * Dolf Joekes (1884–1962), Dutch politician * Dolf Kessler (1884–1945), Dutch football player and industrialist * Dolf van Kol (1902–1989), Dutch footballer who earned 33 caps for the Dutch national side * Dolf van der Linden (1915–1999), Dutch conductor of popular music * Dolf Luque (1890–1957), Cuban Major League Baseball pitcher * Dölf Mettler (1934–2015), Swiss yodeler, composer and painter * Dolf van der Nagel (1889–1949), Dutch amateur footballer * Dolf Rieser (1898–1983), South African born British painter, printmaker, and teacher * Dolf Roks (born 1962), former amateur footballer from The Netherlands * Dolf Sternberger (1907–1989), German philosopher and political scientist at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek ; sometimes also ''hypocoristic''), or pet name, is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. Origins and usage Etymologically, the term ''hypocorism'' is from Ancient Greek (), from (), meaning 'to call by endearing names'. The prefix refers in this case to creating a diminutive, something that is smaller in a tender or affectionate sense; the root originates in the Greek for 'to caress' or 'to treat with tokens of affection', and is related to the words () 'boy, youth' and () 'girl, young woman'. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the Morphology (linguistics), morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often clipping (morphology), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolf Roks
Dolf Roks (born 21 November 1962 in Zierikzee) is a former amateur football player from the Netherlands. As a football coach he had a long time spell with Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam. Established on 1 April 1888, Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands. Sparta currently competes in the Eredivisie, the top flig ..., before being fired on 22 January 2003. See also * 2002–03 Sparta Rotterdam season ReferencesProfile 1962 births Living people Dutch football managers Dutch men's footballers Footballers from Zierikzee RBC Roosendaal managers Sparta Rotterdam managers Men's association football defenders Sparta Rotterdam non-playing staff 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{netherlands-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piz Dolf
Piz Dolf ( Romansh) or Trinserhorn ( German) is a mountain of the Glarus Alps The Glarus Alps () are a mountain range in central Switzerland. They are bordered by the Uri Alps and the Schwyz Alps to the west, the Lepontine Alps to the south, the Appenzell Alps to the northeast. The eastern part of the Glarus Alps contains ..., located on the border between the cantons of St. Gallen and Graubünden. Piz Sardona is to the north across a glacier, and to its west Piz Segnas. Both Piz Segnas and Piz Dolf show the line of the '' Glarus thrust'' in its upper part. The easiest access to the area is an aerial cableway to Fil de Cassons from Flims or any of various hikes to this ridge lying southeast of Piz Dolf. One route uses the ascent via Val Bargis (the path can be seen on the picture (right) crossing the southern face of Piz Dolf in vegetation). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolph (other)
Dolph may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Dolph Briscoe (1923–2010), Governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979 * Dolph Camilli (1907–1997), American Major League Baseball player * Dolph Eckstein (1902–1963), American football player * Dolph Heinrichs (1883–1967), Australian rules footballer * Dolph Lundgren (born 1957), Swedish actor * Dolph Pulliam (born 1946), American former basketball player and television sportscaster * Dolph Schayes (1928–2015), National Basketball Association Hall of Fame player and coach * Dolph Sweet (1920–1985), American actor * Dolph van der Scheer (1909–1966), Dutch speed skater who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics Surname * Charles L. Dolph (1918–1994), American professor of mathematics * Cyrus A. Dolph (1840–1914), American businessman * John Henry Dolph (1835–1903), American painter *Joseph N. Dolph (1835–1897), U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1883 to 1895 Stage or ring name *Young Dolph (1985–2021), American rap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dart Golf
Dart golf games are games in which darts are thrown at traditional dart boards or dart boards that resemble golf courses with colored areas that represent a golf course. Dart golf games use golf-like rules and scoring. Rules and board configurations of the game vary from league to league, but are generally played single, head-to-head or with teams. History Dart golf games have been known since as early as 1932 based on Harrison Johnston UK Patent submission. Later, NODOR produced an 18-hole golf dartboard and another dartboard called PAR DARTS. Further, there was a patent filed in 1997 by Howard Hanson for a dartboard where the numbers are in a different order than the standard dartboard to make playing golf on the board more like playing a golf course. Finally, Dolf was developed on September 1, 1999 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada by Keith Meyer and Michael Meyer where a golf like game is played on a standard dart board. Dolf is regulated by the World Dolf Federation (WDFF) with r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolf Wyllarde
Dorothy Margarette Selby Lowndes, writing as Dolf Wyllarde (3 April 1871 - 10 May 1950) was a British journalist and a writer of verse and fiction. From 1897 to 1939, she was known to publish in excess of 30 books, including novels, stories and children's literature. Numerous reviews of her work mistakenly referred to her as a male due to misunderstanding of her chosen name, with some believing it to be a pen name. She was described by one newspaper as being "one of the pioneers in the latest phase of English fiction" and as "a new power in the fiction world, a power to be reckoned with". Little is known about her private life and she died a spinster in May 1950. Career Born on 3 April 1871, she was educated at King's College London. She described herself as a London correspondent, sports editor, reporter and a paragraphist. In 1902, after suffering from overwork, she travelled to South Africa to recover her health. Throughout her career, she published over 30 books between 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dölf Wild
Dölf Wild (born 1954) is a Swiss historian, archaeologist and science writer, and works as the chief archaeologist of the city of Zürich. He is best known for his research into the building industry of medieval Zürich and for his contribution to the conservation of Switzerland's architectural heritage. Life and work Dölf Wild grew up in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, and undertook an apprenticeship as a draftsman at the company that is now SIG Sauer in Neuhausen. Later, he earned a baccalaureate at the cantonal school for adults KME in Zürich. He studied history, anthropology and art history at the University of Zurich, and in 1999 completed a thesis on ''Das Predigerkloster in Zürich. Ein Beitrag zur Architektur der Bettelorden im 13. Jahrhundert'' Since 2001, Dölf Wild has been the chief archaeologist (German: Leiter Stadtarchäologie Zürich) of the city of Zürich. Among his other duties in that role, he supervised the 2014/15 excavations at the Münsterhof plaza. Publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolf Van Der Voort Van Zijp
Adolf van der Voort van Zijp (1 September 1892 in Klambir Lima, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies – 8 March 1978 in Monaco) was a Dutch horse rider who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Biography Born into a Dutch patrician family, he was first and foremost a military man, and like the other members of his Olympic team he served in the Dutch armed forces. At the Olympics of 1924 first Olympic games he was a lieutenant in the Second Regiment of the Huzares. Eventually he would be promoted to Inspector of the Cavalry. In the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The opening ceremony was held on 5 July, but some competitions had al ... he won the gold medal in the individual three-day event as well as in the team three-day event. Four years later he again won the gold medal in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolf De Vries
Dolf de Vries (11 July 1937 – 5 December 2020) was a Dutch actor from The Hague. De Vries was best known for his television appearances, especially for his role as Verhulst in '' Dossier Verhulst'' (1986–87). He also appeared in several of Paul Verhoeven's best-known films, such as '' Black Book'' and '' Soldier of Orange''. In his spare time he wrote plays and travel books. He died, aged 83, at his home in The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c .... Filmography References External links * 1937 births 2020 deaths Dutch male film actors Dutch male television actors Male actors from The Hague 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolf Verroen
Dolf Verroen (born 20 November 1928) is a Dutch writer of children's literature. He won the Gouden Griffel, Zilveren Griffel award five times. Career Early in his career, he worked for the newspaper ''Het Vrije Volk''. Verroen made his debut in 1955 with the poetry collection ''In los verband''. His first children's book ''Het boek van Jan-Kees'', later republished as ''Paarden, van die enge grote'', was published in 1958 although he wrote the story originally between age 14 and 15. He won the Gouden Griffel, Zilveren Griffel award five times: in 1979 for ''De kat in de gordijnen'', in 1981 for ''Hoe weet jij dat nou?'', in 1987 for ''Een leeuw met lange tanden'', in 2019 for ''Droomopa'' and in 2020 for ''Niemand ziet het''. In 2006, he won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for his book ''Wie schön weiß ich bin'', a German translation of ''Slaaf Kindje Slaaf'' by Rolf Erdorf. The book was later republished under the title ''Hoe mooi wit ik ben'' with illustrations by Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolf Sternberger
Dolf Sternberger (originally ''Adolf Sternberger''; 28 July 1907 – 27 July 1989) was a German people, German philosopher and political scientist at the University of Heidelberg. Biography Dolf Sternberger was born in Wiesbaden in 1907. He is known for his concept of citizenship in contemporary German political thought, and for coining the term "constitutional patriotism" (''Verfassungspatriotismus'') in 1979, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany.Jan-Werner Muller''Constitutional Patriotism'' Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 21. He died in Frankfurt/Main in 1989. Notes References * Bernhard Vogel (politician), Bernhard Vogel: ''Dolf Sternberger und die Politische Wissenschaft''. Heidelberg 2008. External links * "Sprachkritik", Nazism, and the German Conscience: the Career of Dolf SternbergerDolf-Sternberger-Gesellschaft e.V. 20th-century German philosophers 1907 births 1989 deaths Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolf Rieser
Dolf Rieser (1898–1983) was a South African painter, printmaker, and teacher. He illustrated the 1952 edition of ''Two Tales of the Congo'' by Joseph Conrad with eight copper engravings. He was the author of ''Art and Science'' published in 1972. Early life and education Dolf Rieser was born in King William's Town, Cape Colony, and educated in Germany and Switzerland. In 1917, he studied at the École Polytechnique, Zürich, obtaining a diploma in agricultural engineering, then from 1918–22 obtained a doctorate in biological science at the University of Lausanne. In 1923, he researched science at Munich University, while studying art with Hans Hoffman. Rieser studied at the Atelier 17 in Paris with British surrealist painter and printmaker Stanley William Hayter (1901–88) and Polish engraver Józef Hecht (1891–1951). In 1926, Hayter had settled in Paris, where he enrolled at the Académie Julian and studied burin engraving privately with Hecht, who also taughAntho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
