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Dirk (name)
Dirk is a male given name of Dutch origin. It is a traditional diminutive of the Dutch name: Diederik. The meaning of the name is "the people's ruler", composed of ''þeud'' ("people") and ''ric'' ("power"). Dirk may also be a surname. It is cognate to French Thierry, German Dietrich and Gothic Theoderic. It may refer to: People with the given name * Dirk I, Count of Holland (died 944) * Dirk II, Count of Holland (944–988) * Dirk III, Count of Holland (died 1039) * Dirk IV, Count of Holland (1020–1049) * Dirk V, Count of Holland (1052–1091) * Dirk VI, Count of Holland (1114–1157) * Dirk VII, Count of Holland (died 1203) * Dirk Bach (1961–2012), German actor * Dirk Bauermann (born 1957), German basketball coach * Dirk Benedict (born 1945), American actor * Dirk Bikkembergs (born 1959), Belgian fashion designer * Dirk Blocker (born 1957), American actor * Dirk Bolt (1930–2020), Dutch-born architect * Dirk Bootsma (1936–2020), Dutch geneticist * Dirk Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk I, Count Of Holland
Dirk I ( Frisian ''Durk I'' or ''Diderik'', Latin ''Theoderic'' or ''Thidericus Fresonie'', German ''Dietrich'') was count of West Frisia, later known as the County of Holland. He is thought to have been in office from c. 896 to c. 928 or 939. 'Count in Frisia' The actual title of count Dirk I was 'count in Frisia'. Dirk is thought to be a son of Gerulf II, the preceding 'count in Frisia', who is named by some sources as one of the counts who assassinated their Viking overlord Godfrid 'the Sea King' at a place named Herespich (modern Spijk) in 885. Regarding Dirk I, almost nothing is known of his life, a situation further clouded by the present-day hypothesis that he had a son, Dirk (numbered Dirk I bis, to avoid confusion with the already established numbering), who succeeded him instead of the traditional view that he was succeeded by his supposed son Dirk II. Founding of Egmond Abbey In 922 Dirk was present at a place called ''Bladella'' (present-day Bladel, in the extre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bauermann
Dirk Bauermann (born 10 December 1957) is a German professional basketball coach. Playing career Bauermann played club basketball in the German senior club of BBC Krefeld, from 1975 to 1981. Club coaching career Bauermann was an assistant coach at Fresno State University, with the Fresno State Bulldogs, from 1986 to 1988. He was then an assistant coach with the German League club TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen during the 1988-89 season, before becoming the team's head coach prior to the 1989-90 season. With Leverkusen, he won 7 German League championships and 4 German Cups, and was twice named the German League's Coach of the Year. He then coached the Belgian League club Oostende, and after that, the Greek club Apollon Patras, which was competing in the Greek Second Division at the time. He then coached the German League club Brandt Hagen, before coaching the Greek League club Dafni. He coached the German League club Brose Baskets, from 2001 to 2008. With Brose, he won two Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Elbers
Dirk Elbers (born 11 December 1959) Germany, German politician, representative of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany), German Christian Democratic Union. After the death of Lord Mayor Joachim Erwin, who died in office, on 2 June 2008 Elbers was a candidate for the CDU to become mayor. The election took place on 31 August 2008. Dirk Elbers won this election on the first ballot with 59.7% of the vote against his candidate against Karin Kortmann from the SPD. The turnout was around 38%.Stadt DüsseldorfSieg mit deutlichem Vorsprung, 31 August 2008 See also *List of German Christian Democratic Union politicians References Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians 1959 births Living people Mayors of Düsseldorf {{Germany-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Dirksen
Dirk Dirksen (August 25, 1937 – November 20, 2006) was a music promoter and emcee of the San Francisco punk rock clubs Mabuhay Gardens and On Broadway in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Dirksen was nicknamed the "Pope of Punk." Dirksen was born in Braunschweig, Germany and immigrated to the US in 1948. He was a nephew of United States Senator Everett Dirksen. He served in the Army, briefly attended San Jose State University, and entered the entertainment business in the late 1950s, hosting a live television show called ''Rocket to Stardom''. He then worked as a tour manager for several 1960s rock and soul acts. In 1974, he began to book acts at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco's North Beach, and began booking local punk acts ( The Nuns, The Sheets, Crime, Mary Monday, etc.) along with soon-to-be-famous national and international talent, such as Blondie, The Ramones, Devo, Black Flag, and The Dead Kennedys. From 1979 to 1982, he wrote and directed ''Amapola Presents Show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Cussler
Dirk Cussler (born 1961) is an American author. He is the son of best selling author Clive Cussler and a co-author of several Dirk Pitt adventure novels, as well as being the namesake of the Pitt character. Early life and education Cussler was born in 1961; he has an MBA from Berkeley. Career Cussler worked for many years in finance before assisting his father in writing the latest novels in the ''Dirk Pitt'' series. Cussler also plays an integral part in the non-profit foundation National Underwater and Marine Agency, which was founded by his father. Cussler is head of the council of NUMA and is also a member of the NUMA's Board of Trustees. Bibliography *'' Black Wind'' (2004), co-written with Clive Cussler *''Treasure of Khan'' (2006), co-written with Clive Cussler *''Arctic Drift'' (2008), co-written with Clive Cussler *'' Crescent Dawn'' (2010), co-written with Clive Cussler *''Poseidon's Arrow ''Poseidon's Arrow'' is a Dirk Pitt novel, the twenty-second of that series, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Crabeth
Dirk (or Dirck) Pietersz Crabeth (1501–1574) was a Dutch Renaissance glass painter, tapestry designer, and mapmaker. He was employed by the Janskerk (Gouda) during the 16th century, where he created eight of the stained glass windows during the years 1555–1571. His windows are one of the reasons that the church was placed on the UNESCO list of monuments. Biography He and his talented brother Wouter Crabeth I were the sons of Pieter Dirckz of Gouda.Bio sketch on Dirk in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam They came from a painting family that was employed in the glass industry of Gouda. Archival evidence survives today showing orders of glass panes from various Netherlands towns. Dirk's fame began when he won a commission to make a glass pane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Coster
Dirk Coster (October 5, 1889 – February 12, 1950), was a Dutch physicist. He was a Professor of Physics and Meteorology at the University of Groningen. Coster was born in Amsterdam. On February 26, 1919, he married Lina Maria Wijsman, who held a degree in Oriental languages. Eventually, she was one of the first women to obtain a doctorate degree in this field from the University of Leiden. Dirk and Miep had two sons and two daughters (Hendrik, Ada, Els, and Herman). Coster is known as the co-discoverer of hafnium (element 72) in 1923, along with George de Hevesy, by means of X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore. The discovery took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Its name is derived from ''Hafnia'', the Latin name for Copenhagen. Childhood and education Coster grew up in Amsterdam in a large working-class family; he was the third child of Barend Coster, a blacksmith, and Aafje van der Mik. The Coster family valued education. Ten of their children survived to adult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bruinenberg
Dirk Bruinenberg (born 21 August 1968) is a Dutch musician known as the former drummer of several European progressive metal and power metal bands, including: Elegy, Ian Parry's Consortium Project and Adagio. He is often recognized for his intricate drumming style and technical double bass patterns. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Bruinenberg played with Dutch thrash metal bands Abyss and Vulture. Subsequently, he joined Elegy in 1993, replacing original drummer Ed Warby of Gorefest. He recorded seven albums with Elegy until 2002. The band toured throughout Europe and Japan alongside Stratovarius, Kamelot, Annihilator, Phantom Blue, The Gathering, Gorefest and others. After Elegy, Bruinenberg joined French progressive metal band Adagio with whom he recorded their first two albums. He left the band in late 2003, citing personal reasons coupled with conflicting schedules. His performance in Adagio has been critically acclaimed due mainly to the high complexity of the music. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Brossé
Dirk, Knight BrosséEtat présent de la noblesse belge 2015, p. 20 (born 18 February 1960, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor and composer. He has composed over 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic works. Brossé has also composed extensively for stage, cinema, television. His score for the BBC/HBO series Parade's End (2012) was nominated for an Emmy Award. Dirk Brossé is currently Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and of the Ghent Film Festival. John Williams chose him as Principal Conductor of the Star Wars in Concert World Tour. Brossé is also professor of composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. Dirk Brossé has conducted international orchestras, both at home and abroad. Amongst them, the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Vancouver Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, BBC Concert Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Orchestre de la S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Brouwer
Dirk Brouwer (; September 1, 1902 – January 31, 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer. He received his PhD in 1927 at Leiden University under Willem de Sitter and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the ''Astronomical Journal''. He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook ''Methods of Celestial Mechanics''. Awards *Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1955) *Bruce Medal (1966) Named after him *Asteroid 1746 Brouwer *The crater Brouwer on the Moon (jointly with mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer) * Dirk Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society * Dirk Brouwer Award of the American Astronautical Society Formed in 1954, the American Astronautical Society (AAS) is an independent scientific and technical group in the United States dedicated to the advancement of space science and space exploration. AAS supports NASA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bootsma
Dirk Bootsma (23 May 1936 – 5 October 2020) was a Dutch geneticist. He was a professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam between 1969 and 2002. He and his research group discovered the cause of chronic myelogenous leukemia and furthered the understanding of the nucleotide excision repair. Career Bootsma was born on 23 May 1936. He started his study of biology at Utrecht University in September 1953. He did his first DNA-research under professor Winkler. In 1965 he obtained his PhD under Jacob A. Cohen from Leiden University with a thesis titled: "De invloed van röntgenstraling op de delingscyclus van in vitro gekweekte cellen". In the late 1960s Bootsma performed his compulsory military service at the Medical-Biological Laboratory of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). There, he researched the influence of X-radiation on chromosomes in living cells. After obtaining his PhD, Bootsma joined the newly founded department of cell biology and gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bolt
Dirk Bolt (24 October 1930 – 13 December 2020) was a Dutch-born architect who is best known for his post-Second World War Australian modernist architecture and his later career as an academic and consultant that applied sustainable, equitable and humane principles to town planning. His most notable buildings include the Sandy Bay Campus buildings of Christ College at the University of Tasmania and the Murray Street State Offices in Central Hobart.Calder N (1999)Significant Tasmanian architecture of the 20th century In: Australian Bureau of Statistics (1999). Tasmanian Year Book 2000 (Cat. No. 1301.6). Retrieved 18 November 2012. Professional life and education Bolt was born in Groningen on 24 October 1930. He commenced his studies in architecture at the Delft University of Technology, but moved to Australia in 1951, and finished his qualifications as an architect and town planner at Hobart Technical College.McNeill B and Ratcliff E (2006)Dirk Bolt Centre for Tasmanian His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
