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Henriëtte Van Der Meij
Henriëtte van der Meij (also Henriëtte van der Mey: 21 December 1850 - 26 August 1945) was a leading figure in the first wave feminist movement in the Netherlands. At least one source identifies her as the first woman to work as a full-time journalist in that country. Early life and education Henriette Rosina Dorothea van der Meij was born, the youngest of her parents' five children, in Harderwijk, at that time a prosperous fishing and trading town on the shores of the Zuiderzee (an inland sea subsequently sealed off, partially "reclaimed", and then renamed as the IJsselmeer). The family adhered to the mainstream Dutch Reformed Church. George David van der Meij (1806-1899), her father, was an army officer by profession. Her mother, born Henriette Rosina Dorothea Costers (1822-1895), who was of German descent, exercised a strong influence over her daughter as she grew up in Harderwijk. Van der Meij herself never married. Her childhood was not entirely stable due to her fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harderwijk
Harderwijk (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city of the Netherlands. It is served by the Harderwijk railway station. Its population centres are Harderwijk and Hierden. Harderwijk is on the western boundary of the Veluwe. The southeastern half of the municipality is largely forests. History Harderwijk received city rights from Count Otto II of Guelders in 1231. A defensive wall surrounding the city was completed by the end of that century. The oldest part of the city is near where the streets Hoogstraat and Grote Poortstraat now are. Around 1315 the city was expanded southwards, which included the construction of what is now called the Grote Kerk (Great Church). A second, northward expansion took place around 1425. Particularly along the west side of town, much of the wall still exists but often not in entirely original form. That also goes for the only remaining city gate, the Vischpoort (Fish Gate). Between 1648 and 1811, the University of Harderwijk operated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant
The ''Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant'' is a newspaper for the province of Zeeland, Netherlands published and owned by DPG Media of Belgium. Founded in 1758, it is the third-oldest newspaper of the Netherlands. History 19th century: Middelburgsche Courant The paper is a merger of a number of regional papers, the oldest of which was the ''Middelburgsche Courant'', founded in 1758 in Middelburg. One of its scoops was hiring the first female reporter in the Netherlands, in 1885. 20th century: Forming the Provinciale Zeeuwsche Courant In 1933, the ''Middelburgsche Courant'' acquired a paper from Goes, the ''Goesche Courant''. In 1939, it merged with the ''Vlissingsche Courant'', founded 1869 in Vlissingen, and became the ''Provinciale Zeeuwsche Courant''. In 1946 another Goes newspaper, ''Vrije Stemmen: Dagblad voor Zeeland'', merged into PZC. Vrije Stemmen started as an underground newspaper during WWII. In 1998 ''PZC'' acquired the '' Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode'', founded in 1844 by P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeltje De Bosch Kemper
Jkvr. Jeltje de Bosch Kemper (1836 – 1916) was a Dutch feminist. Life Bosch Kemper was born in Amsterdam on 28 April 1836. She was a member of the Kemper noble family, daughter of (1808-1876) and Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1810-1844) and educated in a girls' school. She became interested in women's issues by ''The Subjection of Women'' by John Stuart Mill. In 1871, she became a member of Betsy Perk's ''Algemeene Nederlandsche Vrouwenvereeniging Arbeid Adelt'', an association with the goal to improve women's right to be educated and work to support themselves; in 1872, she founded her own association with the same purpose, ''Algemeene Nederlandsche Vrouwenvereeniging Tesselschade'', which she chaired 1886-1911. In 1878 she founded ''Vereeniging voor Ziekenverpleging'', the first courses to educate professional nurses in the Netherlands. In 1894, she became chairperson of the ''Maatschappelijken en den Rechtstoestand der Vrouw in Nederland'', and association to improve the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vereeniging Voor Vrouwenkiesrecht
The Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Association for Women's Suffrage) was a women's rights organization active in the Netherlands from 1894 to 1919. It was devoted to women's suffrage. It was the main women's suffrage movement in the Netherlands. The Vereeniging changed its name in 1919 and would fuse with another association in 1930 and again in 1949 and still exists today. The Vereeniging had an audience with the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and wrote letters to members of the Dutch parliament. In 1907 some members of the Vereeniging founded their own association, the Nederlandsche Bond voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Dutch League for Women's Suffrage), which was more moderate. This was partly done out of disapproval for the more extreme measures English suffragettes used – measures that were not used by the Vereeniging but were not condemned by them either. The two associations would fuse together again in 1930. After women's suffrage was achieved in 1919, the Vereeniging changed its nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaperone (social)
A chaperone (also spelled chaperon) in its original social usage was a person who for propriety's sake accompanied an unmarried girl in public; usually she was an older married woman, and most commonly the girl's own mother. In modern social usage, a chaperon (frequent in British spelling) or chaperone (usual in American spelling) is a responsible adult who accompanies and supervises young people. By extension, the word chaperone is used in clinical contexts. Origin The word derives figuratively from the French word ''chaperon'' (originally from the Late Latin ''cappa'', meaning "cape"), which referred to a hood that was worn by individuals generally. A chaperone was part of the costume of the Knights of the Garter when they were in full dress and, probably, since the Knights were court attendants, the word ''chaperon'' changed to mean escort. An alternative explanation comes from the sport of falconry, where the word meant the hood placed over the head of a bird of prey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the City Region of Amsterdam, urban area and 2,480,394 in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now designated a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Amstel River that was dammed to control flooding; the city's name derives from the Amstel dam. Originally a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became a major world port during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, when the Netherlands was an economic powerhouse. Amsterdam is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middelburg, Zeeland
Middelburg () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the Capital (political), capital of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Zeeland. Situated on the central peninsula of the Zeeland province, ''Midden-Zeeland'' (consisting of former islands Walcheren, Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland), it has a population of about 48,000. The city lies as the crow flies about 75 km south west of Rotterdam, 60 km north west of Antwerp and 40 km north east of Bruges. In terms of technology, Middelburg played a role in the Scientific Revolution at the early modern period. The town was historically a center of Lens (optics), lens crafting in the Dutch Golden Age, Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. The invention of the microscope and invention of the telescope, telescope is often credited to Middelburg spectacle-makers (including Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lippersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (german: Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918. Despite strengthening the German Empire's position as a great power by building a powerful navy, his tactless public statements and erratic foreign policy greatly antagonized the international community and are considered by many to be one of the underlying causes of World War I. When the German war effort collapsed after a series of crushing defeats on the Western Front in 1918, he was forced to abdicate, thereby marking the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg. Wilhelm II was the son of Prince Frederick William of Prussia and Victoria, German Empress Consort. His father was the son of Wilhelm I, German Emperor, and his mother was the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Veth
Jan Pieter Veth (18 May 1864, Dordrecht – 1 July 1925, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, poet, art critic and university lecturer. He is especially noted as a portrait painter. Amongst his sitters were Max Liebermann, Lambertus Zijl, Frank van der Goes, Antoon Derkinderen and other contemporaries including various fellow painters. Biography Jan Veth was the son of Gerradus Huibert Veth, a Dordrecht iron merchant and liberal politician, and Anna Cornelia Giltay. On his mother's side he descended from the Dordrecht painter family of Van Strij (his mother was a granddaughter of Jacob van Strij). He married Anna Dorothea Dirks on 10 August 1888, from which marriage came five children. Veth received his art education at the ''Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten'' in Amsterdam. He was living in the area, called de Pijp. With several of his fellow students he founded the St. Luke group. From 1885 he worked with the painter Anton Mauve in Laren. After his marriage he settled in Bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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