|
Hartog
Hartog and de/den Hartog(h) are Dutch surnames meaning "(the) duke" (modern Dutch ''hertog'').Hartog at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands Hartog is also a Dutch Jewish given name and surname equivalent to German Herzog and Hirsch, derived from ''hert'' (Dutch for "deer"). People with these names include: Surname Hartog * (1941–2018), Dutch bicycle racer * (born 1954), Dutch field hockey player * |
Jan De Hartog
Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Biography Early years Jan de Hartog was born to a Dutch Calvinist Minister and professor of theology, Arnold Hendrik, and his wife, Lucretia de Hartog (who herself was a lecturer in medieval mysticism), in 1914. He was raised in the city of Haarlem, the Netherlands. At around the age of 11, he ran away to become a cabin boy, otherwise referred to as a "sea mouse" on board a Dutch fishing boat. His father had him brought home, but shortly afterwards, Jan ran off to sea again. The experiences thus gained became material for some of his future novels, as many of his life experiences did. At 16, he briefly attended the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart in Amsterdam, a training college for the Dutch merchant marine but was only there for a year. Per his own account, he was expelled, and told emph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Hartog
Dirk Hartog (; baptised 30 October 1580 – buried 11 October 1621) was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to record his visit, the Hartog Plate. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled Dirck Hartog or Dierick Hartochszch. Ernest Giles referred to him as Theodoric Hartog. The Western Australian island Dirk Hartog Island is named after Hartog. Life Born into a seafaring family, he received his first ship's command at the age of 30 and spent several years engaged in successful trading ventures in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. In 1616 Hartog gained employment with the Dutch East India Company ( nl, Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, commonly abbreviated to VOC), and was appointed master of the (meaning "Concord" or "Unity"), in a fleet voyaging from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies. Hartog set sail in January 1616 in the company of sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joop Hartog
"Joop" (Joost) Hartog (born in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands, on June 29, 1946) is a Dutch economist and an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He ranks among the most important Dutch labour economists and was elected to be a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001) and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. The ''Joop Hartog Dissertation Prize'', a bi-annual prize for the best Ph.D. thesis defended at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Economics and Business, is named after Hartog. Biography A native of Sliedrecht, Joop Hartog studied at the Netherlands School of Economics (1964–70) and at Queen's University, Kingston, where he earned a M.A. in 1971. Thereafter, Hartog did a Ph.D. at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) under the supervision of C.J. van Eijk on the topic of personal income distribution, which he defended in 1978. After working several years at EUR, he became Professor of Microeconom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Hartog
Marion Moss Hartog (22 October 182129 October 1907) was an English Jewish poet, author, and educator. She was the editor of the first Jewish women's periodical, ''The Jewish Sabbath Journal''. Biography Early life Marion Moss was born at Portsmouth on 22 October 1821, one of twelve children of Amelia () and Joseph Moss. Her great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Portsmouth Jewish community, and her grandmother, Sarah Davids, was the first Jewish child born in Portsmouth. Moss was educated by her parents, and at an early age began with her sister Celia the composition of poems and stories. In 1838 the sisters published by subscription a book of poems entitled ''Early Efforts'', influenced in part by classical Jewish texts and the works of Late-Romantic female poets like Felicia Hemans and L.E.L. Among other poems, the volume includes various laments for Jerusalem and a narrative documentary of the York Massacre of 1190, as well as thematically-non-Jewish poems such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Hartog
Sir Philip Joseph Hartog (2 March 1864 – 27 June 1947) was a British chemist and educationalist who undertook this role in England and India. Early life and education Hartog was born in London on 2 March 1864, the third son of Alfonse and Marion Hartog, and the younger brother of Cécile, Héléna, Numa and Marcus Hartog. He was educated at University College School, the Universities of Paris and Heidelberg, and the Collège de France. In 1889 he went to Owens College, Manchester, as Bishop Berkeley Scholar. He edited a history and description of the college (1900), and both there and at the Victoria University he was an assistant lecturer in chemistry. It seemed at that time that this branch of science would claim him. Career At Manchester, however, he was being drawn to university administration. He was secretary to the Victoria University Extension Scheme, a member of the Court, and in 1902–03 secretary to the Alfred Moseley Commission of Educational Inquiry. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog (July 23, 1901 Ambarawa, Dutch East Indies – March 17, 1989) was a Dutch–American mechanical engineer and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biography J. P. Den Hartog was born in 1901 in Ambarova, the Dutch East Indies. In 1916 his family moved to Holland. After attending high school in Amsterdam, he enrolled at Delft University of Technology in 1919 and received his MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1924. Unable to find suitable work in the Netherlands, he emigrated to the United States in 1924. From 1924 to 1930 he worked as an electrical engineer in the research laboratory of Westinghouse Electric (1886) in Pittsburgh. There under the influence of Stephen P. Timoshenko, who took him as his assistant, he began to study electrical and mechanical vibrations. At the same time, he attended night classes in Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became an authority in problems on mechanics and vibration and received a do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbert Hartog
Robbert Hartog CM (January 28, 1919 – January 27, 2008), was an economist, business leader and philanthropist in Midland, Ontario, Canada.House of Commons Debates, Official Report (Hansard), Volume 142, Issues 38-47 E. Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 2008 p 2524 STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS nglishROBBERT HARTOG Mr. Bruce Stanton (Simcoe North, CPC): "Mr. Speaker, a week ago Sunday, my riding lost one of its most celebrated community leaders and builders.".. Background Born and raised in Nijmegen as the son of Arthu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Hartog
Marcus Manuel Hartog (19 August 1851, London – 21 January 1924, Paris) was an English educator, natural historian, philosopher of biology and zoologist in Cork, Ireland. He contributed to multiple volumes of the ''Cambridge Natural History''. Life Hartog was born in London 1851, the second son of the Professor Alphonse Hartog (died 1904) and Marion (née Moss, 1821–1907), younger brother of Numa Edward Hartog and elder brother of Sir Philip Joseph Hartog, Academic Registrar of London University and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dacca. His two younger sisters were the pianist and composer Cécile Hartog and the portrait painter Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, Marcus Hartog was educated at the North London Collegiate School, University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in the National Science Tripos in 1874, and went out in the same year to Ceylon as assistant to the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens — a post that he held fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Hartog
François Hartog (born in 1946) is a French historian. He is noted for his "regimes of historicity" theory as well as his analyses of presentism and the contemporary experience of time. Hartog is also an academic and author of several works including ''The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History.'' Biography Hartog was born in 1946. He studied at the ''École normale supérieure'' in Paris and was part of a group of Hellenist scholars who studied under Jean-Pierre Vernant. Later, Hartog became an assistant to the German historian Reinhart Koselleck. The two collaborated on several works, which included a project that described how the problems of modern time schema are not limited to an imperialist past or present. Hartog would later challenge what he perceived as Koselleck's Eurocentric reflection of the present and the past. Hartog's works can be classified into two: his early works that focused on the intellectual history of ancient Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartog Plate
Hartog Plate or Dirk Hartog's Plate is either of two pewter plates, although primarily the first, which were left on Dirk Hartog Island during a period of European exploration of the western coast of Australia prior to European settlement there. The first plate, left in 1616 by Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, is the oldest-known artifact of European exploration in Australia still in existence. A replacement, copying the text of the original plus some new text, was left in 1697the original dish returned to the Netherlands, where it is on display in the Rijksmuseum. Further additions at the site, in 1801 and 1818, led to the location being named Cape Inscription. Dirk Hartog, 1616 Dirk Hartog was the first confirmed European to see Western Australia, reaching it in his ship the '' Eendracht''. On 25 October 1616, he landed at Cape Inscription on the very northernmost tip of Dirk Hartog Island, in Shark Bay. Before departing, Hartog left behind a pewter dinner plate, nailed to a post an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacci Den Hartog
Jacci Den Hartog (born 1962 in Pella, Iowa) is an American sculptor. Career Den Hartog has actively been exhibiting her sculptures since 1991. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. in the “Painting Outside Painting: 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting;” Nantes Museum, Nantes, France; San Francisco Art Institute; Kansas City Art Institute; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica; Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; and The Suburban, Chicago as well as various European galleries in The Netherlands, Denmark and the Czech Republic. Den Hartog received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Fine Arts in 2012. She has received numerous other grants and awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artists Grant, the Art Matters, Inc. Artists Grant; the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Award; California Community Foundation, Mid-Career Artist Grant; and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori Den Hartog
Lori Den Hartog () is an American politician serving as a member of the Idaho Senate from the 22nd district. She assumed office on December 1, 2014. Early life and education Den Hartog was born in Escondido, California and graduated from Nampa Christian High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration and public administration from Dordt College. Career Outside of politics, Den Hartog has worked in land use, transportation planning, and grant administration. She was elected to the Idaho Senate in November 2014 and assumed office on December 1, 2014. From 2017 to 2020, Den Hartog served as vice chair of the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee. In the 2021–2022 legislative session, she is chair of the Senate Transportation Committee. Personal life Den Hartog and her husband, Scott, were married in 2002. They have three children. Den Hartog's father, John Vander Woude, also a Republican, is a member of the Idaho House of Representatives The I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Jan De Hartog")
