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Govert
Govert is a Dutch masculine given name. It is a form of the name Godfried. at the database of given names in the Netherlands. Other forms include ''Govaart'' and ''Govaert''. People with this name include: * Govert-Marinus Augustijn (1871–1963), Dutch potter in the style of the Art Nouveau * (1649–1713), Dutch physician, anatomist, poet and playwright * |
Nicolaas Govert De Bruijn
Nicolaas Govert "Dick" de Bruijn (; 9 July 1918 – 17 February 2012) was a Dutch mathematician, noted for his many contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn's obituary 2012 Biography De Bruijn was born in where he attended elementary school between 1924 and 1930 and secondary school until 1934. He started studies in mathematics at in 1936 but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of |
Govert-Marinus Augustijn
Govert-Marinus Augustijn (Bergen op Zoom, 27 October 1871 – Hilversum, 26 May 1963) was a Dutch potter in the style of the Art Nouveau. at the Netherlands Institute for Art History. He was the son of pottery manufacturer Govert Johannes Augustijn and Maria van Dijke. Live and work The city of Bergen op Zoom was since the fifteenth century one of the most important centers for the production of ceramics in Europe. A dozen families, including the families ''Vetten'' and ''Augustijn'' and Augustine, dominated this industry. The family of Govert-Marinus already knew at least six generations of potters, and was descended from Adriaen Augustijn, a master potter, known to have married on December 20, 1661 with Margrieten Jans. Govert-Marinus was the grandson of Govert Marinus Govertz. Augustijn (1803-1879), a major pott ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Schilling
Govert Schilling (born 30 November 1956) is a Dutch popular science writer and amateur astronomer. Career Schilling was born in Meerkerk. In 1982, he became the program leader at the former Zeiss Planetarium, Amsterdam. From 1987 to 1998 he was also a part-time appointee as a program leader at the Artis Planetarium in Amsterdam. He has extensively written for the Sky & Telescope magazine and Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu .... Honours The asteroid ''10986 Govert'' is named after him. Bibliography He is the author of a number of bestselling books. He has frequently collaborated with Lars Lindberg Christensen. * ''Europe to the Stars: ESO's first 50 years of exploring the southern sky'' * ''Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries'' * ''Evolving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Flinck
Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 16152 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Life Born at Kleve, capital of the Duchy of Cleves, which was occupied at the time by the United Provinces, he was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer, but having secretly acquired a passion for etching and drawing, was sent to Leeuwarden, where he boarded in the house of Lambert Jacobszoon, a Mennonite, better known as an itinerant preacher than as a painter. Here Flinck was joined by Jacob Backer, and the companionship of a youth determined like himself to be an artist only confirmed his passion for painting. Amongst the neighbours of Jacobszon at Leeuwarden were the sons and relations of Rombertus van Uylenburgh, whose daughter Saskia married Rembrandt in 1634. Other members of the same family lived at Amsterdam, cultivating the arts either professionally or as amateurs. The pupils of Lambert probably gained some knowledge of Rembrandt by intercourse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Huijser
Govert Huijser (6 February 1931 – 5 January 2014) was a Dutch general and Chief of the Defence Staff between 1983 and 1988. Huijser was born in Surabaya, in the then Dutch East Indies. During World War II he was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp. In 1949 he enrolled in the Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands. He graduated as a second lieutenant. As major general he served as commanding officer of the First Division "7 December". In 1983 he was promoted to Chief of the Defence Staff (''Dutch:Chef Defensiestaf''). During this time he was the only four-star general of the Netherlands. In 1986 he was made aide-de-camp to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. In 1988 he reached the mandatory age of retirement, he was succeeded as Chief of the Defence Staff by Peter Graaff. He died on 5 January 2014 in Roosendaal Roosendaal () is both a city and a municipality in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. Towns/villages of the municipality * Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Van Der Leeuw
Gabriel, or Govert van der Leeuw (1645–1688), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography He was the brother of Pieter van der Leeuw, and they learned to paint from their father, the painter Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw, who had been a pupil of Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp.Gabriel van der Leeuw biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by , courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature As a young man he traveled to Amsterdam, where he married the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Bidloo
Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo (12 March 1649 – 30 March 1713) was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. He was the personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Bidloo was also a prolific and popular poet, opera librettist, and playwright. He wrote the libretto for the first-ever Dutch opera, '' Bacchus, Ceres en Venus'' (1686) by Johan Schenck. His collected works were published in three volumes after his death. One of Bidloo's students was his nephew Nicolaas Bidloo, who would go on to become the personal physician of Russian czar Peter the Great, and also founded a medical school in Moscow. Life and career Born into a Mennonite family of Amsterdam, the son and namesake of a hatter, he was the younger brother of the literary apothecary, Lambert Bidloo (1638-1724), a thorough classicist who saw to it that he had a requisite mastery of Latin as well as Dutch. Govert then began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Brasser
Govert Jacob Willem Brasser (born 24 April 1957, in The Hague) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Brasser represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics, which was boycotted by several countries, in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. With Willem van Walt Meijer as helmsman, Brasser took the 5th place in the Tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the .... Sources * * * * * * * * Living people 1956 births Sportspeople from The Hague Sailors (sport) from South Holland Dutch male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Tornado Olympic sailors for the Netherlands 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Dircksz Camphuysen
Govert Dircksz Camphuysen (born at Dokkum in 1624, and died in Amsterdam in 1672) was an animal painter, whose style was influenced by Paulus Potter. When his father Dirck Rafaelsz Camphuysen died in 1627, his mother moved with the children to Amsterdam. Camphuyzen lived in the Jordaan. In 1643 he painted portraits. He married in 1647 and left the city around 1650, not long after he became a poorter. By that time he was living in Kalverstraat and may have faced financial trouble. He portrayed queen Hedvig Eleonora in Stockholm, but Camphuyzen is most famous for his stables, with farmers and farmers' wives. A painting in the Dulwich Gallery of ''Peasants with cows before a cottage'', with a forged signature of Paulus Potter, is attributed to Camphuysen; in the Rotterdam Museum is a picture of ''Peasants before an Inn'', signed G. Camphuijsen; the Brussels Gallery has an 'Interior of a Farm,' signed with his name and dated 1650; and a painting of 'Peasants and Cattle before a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Schüller
Govert Schüller (born 1959) is a Dutch-American author who writes about Jiddu Krishnamurti and theosophy. He studied philosophy at the University of Leiden and the University of Amsterdam.Luis S R Vas, ''J. Krishnamurti: Great Liberator Or Failed Messiah?'' p 144 Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2004 He has also studied under the Heidegger scholar Theodore Kisiel at Northern Illinois University. He has received a Master of Research degree from University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Schüller's study of Krishnamurti has been called "perhaps the most comprehensive assessment of Krishnamurti from the theosophical point of view." Schüller maintains Alpheus.org, a website "dedicated to esoteric and other alternative interpretations of history", shifting its direction, according to an announcement in October 2013, "towards a more philosophical, skeptical and scientific view". Works *"Krishnamurti and the World Teacher Project: Some Theosophical Perceptions" ''Theosophical History: Occasio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Viergever
Govert Viergever (born 29 July 1989) is a Dutch rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i .... References External links * * 1989 births Living people Dutch male rowers Olympic rowers for the Netherlands Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) {{Netherlands-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Govert Boyen
Govert Boyen (born 7 March 1977 in Sint-Truiden) is a Belgian retired football goalkeeper. He was last on the books of Veldwezelt where he retired in the summer of 2012. After that he became goalkeeping coach and due to unavailability of the main goalkeeper at Herk FC, he made two more appearances in December 2013 and January 2014.https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20140106_00915359 In the 2016-17 season he was again twice on the bench but did not appear for Zepperen-Brustem. Previously, he played for Antwerp in the Belgian Pro League and spent most of his career with Lommel United and OH Leuven in the Belgian Second Division The Belgian Second Division was the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system, one level below the Belgian Pro League. It was founded by the Royal Belgian Football Association in 1909 and folded in 2016, when it was replace .... References 1977 births Living people Belgian men's footballers Belgian Pro League players Challen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
