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Geert
Geert is a Dutch given name of Germanic origin, equivalent to the German Gerd and the English Gerry. The name is a condensed form of Gerard, itself a combination of the Germanic words ''ger'' (spear) and ''hard'' (strong or brave) meaning "strong" or "brave with the spear". The name's common female equivalent is Geertje. The pronunciation of the name varies slightly, depending on whether or not the speaker uses a variety of Dutch which distinguishes between the phonemes and . While speakers of most northern varieties of Dutch, which do not distinguish between the two phonemes, will pronounce the name as or , speakers of southern varieties will generally pronounce it as {{IPA, ŁeËrt. Although Geert is a name in its own right, it is often the given name of persons who are formally called Gerard or Gerardus. The latter name refers usually to saints Gerard of Toul or Gerard Majella. People with the given name *Geert Bakker (1921â1993), Dutch sailor *Geert Egberts Boer (1832â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Hoste
Geert Hoste (born 1 July 1960) is a Flemish cabaret performer. Between 1988 and 2016 he was known for his cabaret shows which poked fun at politics, the Belgian royal family and media stories. Annually these shows were broadcast on Flemish public television, traditionally on New Year's Day New Year's Day is a festival observed in most of the world on 1 January, the first day of the year in the modern Gregorian calendar. 1 January is also New Year's Day on the Julian calendar, but this is not the same day as the Gregorian one. Wh ..., and brought in high ratings. Theater shows * 1988 Geert Hoste stand up comedy * 1990 Geert Hoste Vers lach * 1992 Geert Hoste Live wit * 1993 Geert Hoste Live zwart * 1994 Geert Hoste Koning * 1995 Geert Hoste Alleen * 1996 Geert Hoste Spreekt 1 * 1997 Geert Hoste JA! * 1998 Geert Hoste 3000 * 1999 Geert Hoste Sterk * 2000 Geert Hoste Verdorie * 2001 Geert Hoste Dwars * 2002 Geert Hoste Puur en Onversneden * 2003 Geert Hoste Hard * 2004 Geert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Hofstede
Gerard Hendrik (Geert) Hofstede (2 October 1928 â 12 February 2020) was a Dutch social psychologist, IBM employee, and Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology and International Management at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, well known for his pioneering research on cross-cultural groups and organizations. He is best known for developing one of the earliest and most popular frameworks for measuring cultural dimensions in a global perspective. Here he described national cultures along six dimensions: Power Distance, Individualism, Uncertainty avoidance, Masculinity, Long Term Orientation, and Indulgence vs. restraint. He was known for his books ''Culture's Consequences'' and ''Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind'', co-authored with his son Gert Jan Hofstede. The latter book deals with organizational culture, which is a different structure from national culture, but also has measurable dimensions, and the same research methodology is used for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink (born 1959, Amsterdam) is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio-economical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue. As theorist, activist and net critic, Lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the development of the web. Since 2004 Lovink is a researcher at the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) where he heads the Institute of Network Cultures. From 2007 till 2017 he was a Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School where he supervised five PhD students. From 2004-2013 he was an Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In December 2021 he was appointed Professor of Art and Network Cultures at the UvA Art History Department. The Chair (one day a week) is supported by the HvA. Lovink earned his master's degree in political science at the Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Bourgeois
Geert Albert Bourgeois (; born 6 July 1951) is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), which he founded in 2001, who is currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He previously served as the Minister-President of Flanders from 2014 to 2019. Prior to this, he was a member of the federal Chamber of Representatives for the People's Union from 1995 to 2001, and then for the N-VA from 2001 to 2004. He has been involved in local and regional politics in Flanders since 1976. Biography Geert Bourgeoisâs father, Emiel Bourgeois, was born in Hulste on 10 October 1918, towards the end of the First World War. He went on to work as a primary school teacher. After the Second World War he was accused of collaboration and spent some time in prison. He was subsequently rehabilitated and appointed headmaster at the primary school where he had previously been teaching. He died in 1998. Emiel Bourgeois married Izegem-born Gaby Vens (1920-2015), with who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Lap
Gerardus Johannes (Geert) Lap (born Venlo, 24 December 1951- 26 April 2017 ) was a Dutch ceramist, known for his new approach to ceramics characterized as clay minimalism. Life and work Geert Lap studied at the AKV St. Joost from 1974 to 1976, and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie is from 1976 to 1979 under Jan van der Vaart. The first two years in Amsterdam Lap shared a studio with Barbara Nanning, and in 1980 he started his own studio in Amsterdam in his basement apartment. In 1985â86 he lectured at the Design Academy Eindhoven and from 1985 to 1987 also at the Minerva Academy in Groningen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recapitulated, that "his earliest worksâpure cylindrical forms usually associated with functionality but devoid of spouts, handles, and surface decorationâpresage his future ceramic output, although now he has exchanged porcelain for stoneware, a material which he feels is sturdier and allows for sharper forms. Lap works in traditional methods making vas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Huinink
Geert Huinink () (born 29 April 1971) is a Dutch electronic music producer and classical composer. His compositions have been released under many different aliases. There is little published about him, but his name has surfaced around some influential and respected leaders in the Trance music scene. He has released tracks under Tiësto's name and has collaborated with artists like Cor Fijneman and Daniël Stewart. Geert has also produced for a Dutch television show called "Meiden van de Wit" in 2002. Game soundtrack composition is another forte of his. Dawnseekers The Dawnseekers is one of the aliases used by Geert, along with Alco Lammers, that produced melodic and uplifting trance tracks during the early 2000s. The trademark of their tracks were the use of lush strings very closely resembling violins and beautiful horns combined with other orchestrated instruments. There were just a few tracks, "euphoric" in nature, completed during the few years that the duo were active as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Meijer
Geert Meijer (born 15 March 1951) is a Dutch association football, football manager and former professional player. Playing career Born in Sellingen, Meijer played as a Midfielder#Winger, left winger, and began his professional career in 1972 with FC Amsterdam. After moving to city rivals AFC Ajax, Ajax three years later, where he spent four seasons, Meijer spent a year in England with Bristol City F.C., Bristol City, making 15 appearances in the Football League First Division, First Division. Upon his return to the Netherlands, Meijer played for Sparta Rotterdam, FC Dordrecht, DS'79 and NAC Breda, before retiring in 1986. Coaching career While still a professional player, Meijer began his coaching career. He managed the amateur teams VV Strijen, DCV (football club), DCV and Hermes DVS. After 3 consecutive league titles with VV Strijen, he became assistant coach at Feyenoord. Between 1990 and 1999 Meijer was the assistant of 7 different Feyenoord managers: Gunder Bengtsson, Pim V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (21 September 1788; baptized 23 September 1788Baptismal certificate 23 September 1788 Groningen Martinikerk Retrieved 14 March 2019. â 3 February 1899) was a Dutch and is generally accepted by scholars as the first validated on record. Biography Early life Little is known about Boomgaard's life: he was born in , Netherlands. His parents were Adriaan Jacobs Boomgaard (1763â1844) and Geesje ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Mak
Geert Ludzer Mak (born 4 December 1946 in Vlaardingen) is a Dutch journalist and non-fiction writer. Honors For his book ''In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century'' he received the Leipziger Buchpreis zur EuropĂ€ische VerstĂ€ndigung (2008) and the Otto von der Gablentz Prize (2009). The French government also awarded him the Chevalier de la LĂ©gion dâHonneur (2008). In the Netherlands, his exceptional engagement with international history has earned him the Golden Gooseâs Feather (2015), the Comenius Prize (2016) and the Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Prize for his entire oeuvre (2017). In the statement that accompanied the honorary degree from MĂŒnster, Mak was dubbed a âgifted storytellerâ capable of âcombining hard science, popularization, originality and engagement.â Historians are generally cautious when judging Makâs work. Books In 1999, to mark the end of the century, Mak spent an entire year crisscrossing Europe for ''NRC Handelsblad'' and publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Brusselers
Geert Brusselers (born January 6, 1970 in Eindhoven, Netherlands) is a Dutch association football, football coach and a former player. He manages the Under-19 squad of PSV Eindhoven, PSV. Club career Geert began his football career with the amateurs of BSC Roosendaal and Valkenswaard. Afterward he transferred to PSV Eindhoven, PSV but never managed to break through into the first squad. After his time with PSV Eindhoven, PSV, he played for Fortuna Sittard (1989â1991), FC Den Bosch (1991â1992), NAC Breda (1992â1998), Al Nasr SC (Dubai), Al Nasr (United Arab Emirates; 1998â1999), Beerschot AC, Germinal Beerschot (Belgium; 1999â2000), Al-Shaab CSC, Al-Shaab (United Arab Emirates; 2000â2001), Ajax Cape Town F.C., Ajax Cape Town (South Africa; 2001â2002), Fortuna Sittard (2002â2004) and the Calgary Mustangs (USL), Calgary Mustangs (Canada; 2004). Personal life Geert is the father of NAC player Bodi Brusselers and a son of former PSV Eindhoven, PSV player Toon Brussele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert De Vlieger
Geert De Vlieger (; born 16 October 1971) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career De Vlieger was born in Dendermonde. He started his career in his home country playing for Anderlecht and Beveren before moving to the Netherlands and playing for Willem II for four years between 2000 and 2004. He played his first international for Belgium in 1999 and won 43 caps for his country. He was the second choice goalkeeper for the UEFA Euro 2000 behind starter Filip De Wilde, but then became the number 1 starter for the 2002 FIFA World Cup replacing the latter after De Wilde's poor performances during the Euro 2000. De Vlieger signed with Manchester City in June 2004, but due to an achilles tendon injury he sustained, he missed the entirety of the 2004â05 season and did not play a single game during his two seasons in England. In June 2006, he signed for Zulte Waregem to make a comeback in the Belgian First Division A. On 30 May 2008, De Vlieger s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Hammink
Geert Hendrik Hammink (born 12 July 1969) is a Dutch former basketball player and current coach. He is the current head coach of the Skyliners Frankfurt of the German Basketball Bundesliga. He was selected by the Orlando Magic in the first round (26th overall) of the 1993 NBA Draft. Hammink played for the Magic and had a small stint with the Golden State Warriors in 3 NBA seasons. In his NBA career, Hammink appeared in 8 games and scored a total of 14 points. He played college basketball at Louisiana State University (LSU). He had a small role as a member of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team in the movie ''Blue Chips''. Coaching career Dutch Windmills On 6 July 2018, Hammink was appointed as head coach of the Dutch Windmills, which made its debut season in the Dutch Basketball League (DBL). Despite reaching the semi-finals of the NBB Cup and being in the fifth place in the DBL, Windmills struggled with financial problems throughout the season. In December 2018, Windmills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
