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Christoffel Van Heerden
Christoffel is a Dutch language, Dutch and Afrikaans cognate of the masculine given name Christopher. Short forms include ''Chris'', ''Christie'', ''Kristof'', and ''Stoffel''. Christoffel also occurs as a patronymic surname. People with the name include: Given name *Christoffel van den Berghe (1590–), Flemish-born Dutch landscape and still life painter *Christoffel Beudeker (–1756), Dutch merchant, landowner and map collector *Christoffel Bisschop (1828–1904), Dutch genre painter and lithographer *Christoffel Brand (1797–1875), South African jurist, politician, and statesman *Christoffel Brand (Simon's Town) A host at Simon's Town, South Africa welcoming ships using it as a refreshment station. *Christoffel Brändli (born 1943), Swiss politician *Christoffel Cornelius Dednam, Christoffel Cornelius "Chris" Dednam (born 1983), South African badminton player *Christoffel van Dijck (1606–1669), Dutch printer, engraver, and type designer *Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoffel Lubienietzky
Krzysztof Lubieniecki or Christoffel Lubienietzky (1659–1729) was a Polish Baroque painter and engraver active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. Biography Krzysztof Lubieniecki was born in Stettin (today: Szczecin), Pommerania. His brother Teodor Lubieniecki was also a painter and engraver. They learned to paint from the landscape and seascape painter Juriaan Stur in Hamburg. In 1667 they travelled to Amsterdam, where Krzysztof apprenticed with Adriaen Backer, and Teodor with Gerard de Lairesse. In 1682, Teodor moved to Hannover before eventually moving to Poland in 1706, where he died. Krzysztof remained in Amsterdam, where he painted portraits and genre pieces. He also collaborated on prints for Jacobus Houbraken, , and Johannes Brandt (son of Gerard Brandt). He died in Amsterdam. In 1944 a Lubieniecki painting ''Portrait of a young man'' was looted from the National Museum of Warsaw by the Nazis during the Warsaw Uprising. It was in turn seized by an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elwin Bruno Christoffel
Elwin Bruno Christoffel (; 10 November 1829 – 15 March 1900) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity. Life Christoffel was born on 10 November 1829 in Montjoie (now Monschau) in Prussia in a family of cloth merchants. He was initially educated at home in languages and mathematics, then attended the Jesuit Gymnasium and the Friedrich-Wilhelms Gymnasium in Cologne. In 1850 he went to the University of Berlin, where he studied mathematics with Gustav Dirichlet (which had a strong influence over him) among others, as well as attending courses in physics and chemistry. He received his doctorate in Berlin in 1856 for a thesis on the motion of electricity in homogeneous bodies written under the supervision of Martin Ohm, Ernst Kummer and Heinrich Gustav Magnus. After receiving his doctorate, Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Christoffel Wonder
Pieter Christoffel Wonder (10 January 1780 – 12 July 1852) was a Dutch painter, active in England. Biography Wonder was born in Utrecht. He was largely self-taught, by making copies of the Old Masters, although between 1802 and 1804 he did attend classes at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.Brief notes @ the . In 1807 he established the "" (Love of Art Society) in Utrecht together with other artists including , and served as director. From 1823 to 1831, he worked in England, where he became well known as a portrait painter, but als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoffel Botha
Jan Christoffel Greyling "Stoffel" Botha (1929–1998) was a South African politician, a member of the National Party, served as member of Parliament (elected representative of the Eshowe constituency in 1974), administrator of Natal Province (1979–1984), Minister of Home Affairs (1985–1989) in the P.W. Botha government. Lawyer by profession, he began his professional career in Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ... before starting a political career. Elected to Natal where he owned a farm, he was appointed administrator of the province in 1979. He was the provincial head of the National Party when State President P.W. Botha named him to the government in 1984 first as Minister of Education, then as Minister of Home Affairs and later the Post and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christo Wiese
Christoffel F. Hendrik Wiese (born 10 September 1941) is a South African businessman and former billionaire. His source of wealth is consumer retail.''Christoffel Wiese'' career information at Forbes.com Early life Wiese was born and grew up in in the region of South Africa. He studied at in the |
Christoffel Viljoen
Christoffel "Christi" Viljoen (born 28 September 1987) is a cricketer who plays for the Namibia national team. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast. He has also played for Otago in domestic cricket in New Zealand. Career Viljoen made his first-class debut for Namibia in the CSA Provincial Three-Day Challenge competition held in South Africa on 21 January 2010 against KwaZulu-Natal. He also made his T20 debut (along with 9 other players in Namibia) against Zimbabwe on 13 February 2010. Opening the bowling with Louis Klazinga, Viljoen took a single wicket (that of Sikandar Raza) for seven runs. He played six matches in the tournament, scoring 61 runs from three innings with a highest of 41, and took six wickets at an average of 16.83. After experimenting with a two-division format the International Cricket Council decided that the 2011–13 ICC Intercontinental Cup would feature eight teams, including Namibia who were previously in the Shield competition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoffel Venter
Major-General Christoffel 'Boetie' Venter , (1 November 1892 – 20 February 1977) was a South African military commander. Military career He joined the 7th Mounted Rifles in 1912 then the 5th SAMR in August 1914 for service in South West Africa. He joined 1 South African Infantry Battalion in 1916 and served in France until he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in February 1917. He was shot down and captured in 1918. He won the DFC and bar and was credited with 16 aerial victories, and joined the South African Air Force in 1922. He commanded 1 Squadron SAAF and served as Officer Commanding Wits Command in 1936 He was Director-General of the Air Force from 1940 to 1945. After World War II, he was managing director of South African Airways. Honours and awards Companion of the Order of the Bath Then Major General Venter was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 1 January 1944 The notice in the London Gazette reads as follows: Distinguished Flying Cross Lieut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoffel Van Wyk
Christoffel "Christie" van Wyk (born 12 October 1977) is a retired Namibian sprinter who competed in the 100 and 200 metres. He represented his country at two consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 2000. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2013-10-29. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor * – 10.09 (+2.0 m/s) (Abilene 2004) *200 metres
The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, th ...
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Christoffel Van Swoll
Christoffel van Swoll (25 April 1668 – 12 November 1718) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 17 November 1713 until his death. He was born in 1668 in Amsterdam as the son of Harmen Stoffelsz. van Swoll, an attendant of the Bank of Amsterdam. On 19 December 1683, he left for Batavia on board the ''Juffrouw Anna'' as an assistant in the service of the Dutch East India Company. He arrived in Batavia on 19 June 1684 and began working in the ''General Secretariat''. He was regularly promoted. In 1686 he was promoted to ''Accountant'', in 1690 to ''First Clerk to the General Secretariat'', and in 1691 to ''Buyer''. In 1696, he was appointed as ''Secretary to the High Government'' (de Hoge Regering). In 1700 he became ''Raad extra-ordinair'' (Counsellor extraordinary) and President of the ''College van Weesmeesteren'' (an orphanage). In 1701 he was named ''Raad ordinair van Indië'' (Full Counsellor of the Indies). On 3 May 1703 he became President of the ''College van Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoffel Van Sichem
Christoffel van Sichem (1581, Basel – 1658, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age woodcutter and engraver. Biography According to the RKD he made woodcuts of famous people after his father, Christoffel van Sichem the Elder.Christoffel van Sichem (II) in the RKD He was the brother of Karel Sichem who published many of his prints. Van Sichem also made woodcuts after portraits by leading artists such as Abraham Bloemaert, Hendrick Goltzius and Maarten van Heemskerck, among others. He made these for various publications and then he bundled and published them himself in "Der zielen Lust-Hof '. Works * "Bibels tresoor, ofte Der zielen lvsthof", by Christoffel van Sichem, Pieter Jacobsz. Paets, Leuven & Amsterdam, 1646 * "'t Schat der zielen, dat is: het geheele leven ons ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoffel Plantijn
Christophe Plantin ( nl, Christoffel Plantijn; – 1 July 1589) was a French Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher who resided and worked in Antwerp. Life Plantin was born in France, probably in Saint-Avertin, near the city of Tours, Touraine. He was not born to a wealthy family, and his mother died when Plantin was still quite young. As a youth he apprenticed as a bookbinder in Caen, Normandy, and also married there. In 1545, he and his wife, Joanna Rivière, set up shop in Paris, but after three years they chose to relocate to the booming commercial center of Antwerp, where Plantin became a free citizen and a member of the Guild of St Luke, the guild responsible for painters, sculptors, engravers and printers. The quality of his work as a bookbinder brought him into contact with nobility and wealth. By 1549, he headed one of the most well-respected publishing houses in Europe. He was responsible for printing a wide range of titles, from Cicero to religious hymn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
