Geertruida is a
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Places
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feminine given name cognate to English
Gertrude
Gertrude or Gertrud may refer to:
Places In space
*Gertrude (crater), a crater on Uranus's moon Titania
*710 Gertrud, a minor planet
Terrestrial placenames
* Gertrude, Arkansas
*Gertrude, Washington
*Gertrude, West Virginia
People
*Gertrude (gi ...
. It was a common name, but its use has declined steadily since about 1950.
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at the Meertens Institute
The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam is a research institute for Dutch language and culture within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' or KNAW).
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database of given names in the Netherlands Bearers often used short forms in daily life, like ''Geertje'', ''Troy'', ''Trudy'', ''Trui'', and '' Truus''. People with the name include:
* Geertruida "Truus" Bauer (1945–1989), Dutch rower
* Geertruida "Truid" Blaisse-Terwindt (1917–2002), Dutch tennis player
*Geertruida Carelsen
Amy Geertruida de Leeuw (10 April 1843 – 4 June 1938), known by the pen name Geertruida Carelsen, was a Dutch author and journalist.
Life and works Provenance and early years
Amy Geertruida de Leeuw was born at the family home alongside t ...
(1843–1938), Dutch author
*Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (September 16, 1812April 14, 1886) was a Dutch novelist.
Life and career
Geertruida Toussaint was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands, on 16 September 1812. Her father, a pharmacist of Huguenot descent, gave h ...
(1812–1866), Dutch novelist
*Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (20 November 1885 – 1973) was a Dutch physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first woman to work in electrical noi ...
(1885–1973), Dutch physicist
* Geertruida "Truida" Heil-Bonnet (1920–2014), Dutch gymnast
* Geertruida "Truus" Hennipman (born 1943), Dutch sprinter
* Geertruida "Truus" Klapwijk (1904–1991), Dutch freestyle swimmer
* Geertruida "Truus" Looijs (born 1946), Dutch swimmer
*Geertruida Middendorp
Geertruida Elisabeth Middendorp (November 21, 1911 – July 13, 2007) was a member of the World War II Dutch resistance group National Organization for Helping People in Hiding (''Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers'', LO). The LO ...
(1911–2007), Dutch resistance member
* Geertruida "Trudy" Ruth (born 1950), Dutch sprinter
* Geertruida van Saksen (1033–1113), countess consort of Holland
*Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer
Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer (21 April 1896, in Alkmaar – 30 August 1978, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch resistance fighter who brought Jewish children and adults into safety before and during the Second World War. Together with other people involved ...
(1896–1978), Dutch war hero and resistance fighter
*Gertruida van Veen
Gertruida van Veen (June 4, 1602 – June 30, 1643) was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.
She was born in Antwerp as the daughter of the painter Otto van Veen. She is best known for her portrait of her father, which is held in the Brussel ...
(1602–1643), Flemish painter
Male
* Geertruida Maria "Ruud" Geels (born 1948), Dutch footballer
Other names
* Geertruid Adriaansdochter Geertruid Adriaansdochter (?? in Wormer – 1573 in IJpesloot near Amsterdam), was a Dutch farmer. She was hanged by Protestant farmers as a Catholic when she attempted to bring food to her brother, a Catholic priest in Amsterdam, who was at th ...
(died 1573), Dutch farmer
* Geertruy Haeck
Geertruy Haeck-van Slingelandt van der Tempel was a 15th-century Dutch patrician woman.
Life
Geertruy was married to Adriaen Hermansz. Haeck, who served as mayor of Dordrecht 1443–44 and 1446–48. After being widowed she entered the congregati ...
, Dutch patrician woman
* Geertruydt Roghman
Geertruydt Roghman (1625, in Amsterdam – 1657, in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver, and printmaker.
Biography
Roghman was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of the engraver Henrick Lambertsz Roghman and Maria Jacobs Savery. Acc ...
(1625–1657), Dutch painter
* Gertruid Bolwater
Gertruid (Truuj) Bolwater (died 1511) was a legendary Dutch heroine, known as the defender of Venlo during its siege by Emperor Maximilian I when she climbed up the defence wall of the city and took over the defence wall from a fallen ensign.
Pat ...
(died 1511), Dutch heroine
See also
*1267 Geertruida
1267 Geertruida, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by astronomer Hendrik van Gent at Johannesburg Observatory in 1930, ...
, a main-belt asteroid
*Geertruida Gerarda (1904 ship)
The ''Geertruida Gerarda (2)'' was a steel four-mast barque launched in the Netherlands in 1904. Measuring 2505 tons, she was the largest sailing vessel ever built in that country and also the last tall ship built by a Dutch yard for commercial ...
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