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Groote is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Geert Groote (1340–1384), Dutch Roman Catholic deacon and theologian *Jan Friso Groote (born 1965), Dutch computer scientist *Matthias Groote (born 1973), German politician See also *De Groote *De Groot {{surname Dutch-language surnames ... [...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] |
Geert Groote
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 lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Friso Groote
Jan Friso Groote (born April 13, 1965, in Doetinchem) is a Dutch computer scientist. Education Groote studied computer science at Twente University obtaining his master's degree in 1988 under supervision of Ed Brinksma. He obtained his PhD thesis in 1991 under Jan Bergstra and Jos Baeten at the University of Amsterdam, while working at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam. Profession He contributed to operational semantics, structural operational semantics and verification technology. His particular contributions include the ''tyft/tyxt format'' for operational rules, the first algorithm to determine bisimulation, branching bisimulation and the ''cones and foci method'' to prove correctness of protocols and distributed algorithms. He is the founding godfather of the process modelling language and analysis tool sets muCRL and mCRL2. He began working in 2000 as a full professor in verification technology at Eindhoven Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Groote
Matthias Groote (born 21 October 1973) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. From 2005 until 2016, he served as Member of the European Parliament and was a part of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. Early life and education Groote was born in Leer and went to secondary school in Westrhauderfehn, taking the leaving exam in 1990. He was trained as an industrial engineer at Deutsche Bahn between 1991 and 1995, where he worked on plant design. In 1995 and 1996 he completed an alternate public service with the German Red Cross. Groote trained to become a technical engineer in 1999, became a qualified industrial engineer in 2005, and also became a sales engineer in 2005. Political career Role in local politics Groote has been a member of the Ostrhauderfehn local council since 1996, a member of the Leer district council since 2001, and the chair of the Ostrhauderfehn SPD council group since 2001. He first became a member of the Social Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Groote
De Groote is a Dutch surname meaning ''"the big one"''. It is most common in Flanders and sometimes is concatenated as DeGroote or Degroote. People with this name include: * Jan de Groote (1911–1989), Dutch farmer and politician *Koenraad Degroote (born 1959), Belgian politician *Melvin De Groote (1895–1963), American chemist and inventor with 925 patents * Michel De Groote (born 1955), Belgian football defender *Michael DeGroote (born 1933), Canadian businessman and philanthropist * Patrick De Groote (born 1958), Belgian politician * :fr:Paul De Groote (1905–1997), Belgian government minister *Steven De Groote (1953–1989), South African classical pianist * Thierry De Groote (born 1975), Belgian road bicycle racer * Wouter Degroote (born 1978), Belgian footballer See also *De Groote Peel National Park, National Park in the Peel, a region in the Southeast of the Netherlands *DeGroote School of Business, faculty at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada *Michael G. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Groot
De Groot () is a surname of Dutch origin. Translating as "the great/big/large/tall" it originated as a nickname for a big or tall person.Groot, de at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands The name has sometimes been Latinized as ''Grotius'', as in the case of . In 2007, there were 36,147 people with this surname in the , making it the 13th most common surname in the country, and 1179 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
