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Groot (surname)
Groot (Legrand in French) is a Dutch surname. Groot () means "big" in Dutch and was originally the name for a tall person. The name is most common in the province of North Holland. at the Meertens Institute database of surnames in the Netherlands It may refer to: * (born 1952), Colombian historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist * Anna Maria Groot (born 1952), Dutch model, Miss Europe of 1973 * (1932–1988), Dutch fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Surname
Dutch names consist of one or more given names and a surname. The given name is usually gender-specific. Dutch given names A Dutch child's birth and given name(s) must be officially registered by the parents within 3 days after birth. It is not uncommon to give a child several given names. Usually the first one is for daily use, often in a diminutive form. Traditionally, Catholics often chose Latinisation of names, Latinized names for their children, such as ''Catharina'' and ''Wilhelmus'', while Protestants more commonly chose simple Dutch forms such as ''Trijntje'' and ''Willem''. In both cases, names were often shortened for everyday use (''Wilhelmus'' and ''Willem'' became ''Wim''). In 2014 39% of Dutch children received one name, another 38% were given two names, 20% had three names, 2% got four names and only a few hundred children had five or more given names. Dutch (Netherlands) naming law (given names) The Dutch people, Dutch naming legislation allows nearly all given na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Groot
Gerard Groote (October 1340 – 20 August 1384), otherwise ''Gerrit'' or ''Gerhard Groet'', in Latin ''Gerardus Magnus'', was a Dutch Catholic deacon, who was a popular preacher and the founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. He was a key figure in the Devotio Moderna movement. Biography Birth and education He was born in the Hanseatic city Deventer in the Bishopric of Utrecht, where his father held a good civic position. He studied at Aachen, then went to the University of Paris when only fifteen. Here he studied scholastic philosophy and theology at the Sorbonne under a pupil of William of Occam's, from whom he imbibed the nominalist conception of philosophy; in addition he studied Canon law, medicine, astronomy and even magic, and apparently some Hebrew. After a brilliant course he graduated in 1358. In 1362 he was appointed teacher at the Deventer chapter school. In 1366 his admiring countrymen sent him to Avignon on a secret mission to Pope Urban V. Religious life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tjade Groot
Tjade Heico Groot (born 22 January 1973) is a former Dutch international cricketer who represented the Dutch national side between 1997 and 2004. He played as a right-handed top-order batsman, occasionally opening the batting. Groot was born in Amsterdam, and played his club cricket for VRA. Having earlier represented the national under-19 team, he made his senior debut for the Netherlands on a tour of South Africa in early 1997.Miscellaneous matches played by Tjade Groot – CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 March 2016. Later in the year, Groot was named in the Dutch squad for the in Malaysia, although he played in only a single match (the fift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Groot
Roger Douglas Groot (1942–2005) was the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, where he had taught since 1973. Prior to graduating law school, he'd served six years in the United States Marine Corps, including a tour in Vietnam as an advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He was an expert in criminal law and procedure, and the death penalty. Groot had been appointed counsel in several Virginia capital cases, appointed as defense legal analyst in federal death penalty cases, and consulted in several hundred capital cases, including Lee Boyd Malvo (Beltway Sniper) and Peter Odighizuwa (Appalachian School of Law shooting). At the time of Groot's death, none of his clients had been sent to death row. New York Times reporter Jayson Blair wrote an article about Groot's defense of Malvo. However, the New York Times later noted that this article was among those where Blair misrepresented himself. Despite t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nycke Groot
Cornelia Nycke Groot (born 4 May 1988) is a Dutch handball player. She represented the Netherlands in three World Women's Handball Championship (winning a silver in Denmark 2015, and a bronze in Germany 2017) and two editions of the Olympic Games. In January 2019, 14 years after debuting on the Dutch national team, she announced she would be retiring from the national team to focus on her club career. In 2021, Groot announced she would participate with the Netherlands at the Tokyo Olympic Games. She also announced the end of her club career. Achievements National team * World Championship: **''Silver Medalist'': 2015 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2017 * European Championship: **''Silver Medalist'': 2016 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2018 European competitions *EHF Champions League **''Winner'': 2017, 2018, 2019 **''Finalist'': 2016 **''Semifinalist'': 2014 *EHF Cup: **''Finalist'': 2011 **''Semifinalist'': 2013 *EHF Cup Winners' Cup: **''Winner'': 2015 Domestic competitions * Danish Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marike Groot
The Gathering is a Dutch rock band, founded in 1989 by brothers Hans and René Rutten and vocalist Bart Smits in Oss, North Brabant. The Gathering earliest releases were categorized as atmospheric doom metal with influences from extreme metal acts like Celtic Frost and Hellhammer. In 1998, with the release of their fifth studio album ''How to Measure a Planet?'', they had a major shift in musical style, with the group acknowledging the growing influence of shoegazing, post-rock, experimental rock and the more ethereal sounds of 4AD bands, such as Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, as well as Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Massive Attack; they expanded their sound, which acquired characteristics of progressive, alternative rock, and trip hop and gained success and recognition beyond the European borders. The group continue to expand upon the experimental nature of their music. In August 2007 Anneke van Giersbergen left the group to focus on her solo project Agua de Annique. On 12 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Groot
Yakov Karlovich Grot (russian: link=no, Я́ков Ка́рлович Грот) ( – ) was a nineteenth-century Russian philologist of German extraction who worked at the University of Helsinki. Grot was a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. In his lifetime, he gained fame for his translations of German and Scandinavian poetry, his work on the theory of Russian orthography, lexicography, and grammar, and his approach to literary editing and criticism, exemplified in a full edition of the works of Derzhavin (1864–1883). His ''Russkoye Pravopisaniye'' (1878, 1885) (, ''Russian orthography'') became the standard textbook of Russian spelling and punctuation until superseded by the decrees of 1917–1918, although his definition of the theoretical foundations remains little changed to this day. Shortly before his death, he assumed the compilation of ''Academic dictionary of Russian'' (1891–1923), which, although continued by Aleksey Shakhmatov, was never to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Groot
Hendrik Groot (22 April 1938 , Ajax.nl, Retrieved 28 May 2013 (Dutch) – 11 May 2022) was a Dutch who played as a forward and . Groot made his professional debut on 23 August 1959 in a 3–0 win of against [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Groot
Vincentius Aloysius (Ed) Groot (born 26 December 1957 in Grootebroek) is a Dutch politician and former journalist, columnist and civil servant. As a member of the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) he was an MP between 17 June 2010 and 23 March 2017. He focused on matters of taxes, government spending and finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...s. References External links *House of Representatives biography 1957 births Living people Dutch civil servants Dutch columnists Dutch journalists Labour Party (Netherlands) politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) People from Stede Broec 21st-century Dutch politicians {{Netherlands-PvdA-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Holland
North Holland ( nl, Noord-Holland, ) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland. In November 2019, it had a population of 2,877,909 and a total area of , of which is water. From the 9th to the 16th century, the area was an integral part of the County of Holland. During this period West Friesland was incorporated. In the 17th and 18th century, the area was part of the province of Holland and commonly known as the Noorderkwartier (English: "Northern Quarter"). In 1840, the province of Holland was split into the two provinces of North Holland and South Holland. In 1855, the Haarlemmermeer was drained and turned into land. The provincial capital is Haarlem (pop. 161,265). The province's largest city and also the largest city in the Netherlands is the Dutch capital Amsterdam, with a population of 862,965 as of November 2019. The King's Commissi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelia Groot
Cornelia Nycke Groot (born 4 May 1988) is a Dutch handball player. She represented the Netherlands in three World Women's Handball Championship (winning a silver in Denmark 2015, and a bronze in Germany 2017) and two editions of the Olympic Games. In January 2019, 14 years after debuting on the Dutch national team, she announced she would be retiring from the national team to focus on her club career. In 2021, Groot announced she would participate with the Netherlands at the Tokyo Olympic Games. She also announced the end of her club career. Achievements National team * World Championship: **''Silver Medalist'': 2015 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2017 * European Championship: **''Silver Medalist'': 2016 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2018 European competitions * EHF Champions League **''Winner'': 2017, 2018, 2019 **''Finalist'': 2016 **''Semifinalist'': 2014 *EHF Cup: **''Finalist'': 2011 **''Semifinalist'': 2013 * EHF Cup Winners' Cup: **''Winner'': 2015 Domestic competitions * Danish C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cor Groot
Cornelis "Cor" Groot (21 January 1909, Akersloot – 23 September 1978, Haarlem) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Acapulco. Groot, as helmsman on the Dutch Dragon, took 10th place with crew members Jan Bol and Pieter de Zwart. Groot was also the substitute helmsmen for the 1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ... Dutch Dragon. Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * External links * * * 1909 births 1978 deaths People from Akersloot Dutch male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of the Netherlands Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Dragon Sportspeople from North Holland {{Netherlands-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
