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Klaas Verplancke
Klaas is a Dutch male given and surname. It is the Dutch short form of Nicholas, a Greek name ultimately meaning ''victory of the people''. A traditionally common name in the Netherlands, its popularity declined some 20-fold since 1950. at the Meertens Institute's database of Dutch given names Archaic spellings include Claas and Claes. Among its female derivatives are Klaasje, Clasien, Clasina, Clasine, Clazien, Klasien, Klasina and Klaziena. Klaas also exists as a , though the forms [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Van Berkel
Klaas van Berkel (born 24 July 1953) is a Dutch historian, historian of science, and professor of Modern History at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, known from his work on the history of science in the Netherlands, particularly the work of Isaac Beeckman, Simon Stevin and Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis. Life Born in Nieuwer-Amstel, Van Berkel studied history and philosophy at the University of Groningen, and in 1983 he received his PhD at the University of Utrecht with a dissertation, entitled "Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637) en de mechanisering van het wereldbeeld" (Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637) and the mechanization of the world view). Afterwards, he worked as a research assistant at the Open University and taught history of science at the Agricultural University at Wageningen. In 1988 he was appointed Professor of Modern History at the University of Groningen as a successor to Ernst Kossmann. From 1992 to 1999 he was director of the Rudolf Agricola Institute. Since 1988 Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Gubbels
Klaas Gubbels (born 1934) is a Dutch painter and sculptor with a special love of coffeepots. Biography He was born in Rotterdam and in 1954 he became assistant to Wally Elenbaas and Louis van Roode.Klaas Gubbels in the In 1959-1960 he became assistant to Marius van Beek and bronze worker Dick Grossman. He became a member of the ''Gemeenschap Beeldende Kunstenaars'' (GBK) in 1963. His works, which include large murals as well as small prints, often depict a teapot, usually placed on a table ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas De Groot
Klaas de Groot (born 3 November 1940, Bergen, Limburg) is Emeritus Professor at the Tissue Engineering Group at the University of Twente. In the past he also worked as a visiting scientist at the UCLA bone research laboratory. His work has focused on the research and development of bioceramics Bioceramics and bioglasses are ceramic materials that are biocompatible. Bioceramics are an important subset of biomaterials.J. F. Shackelford (editor)(1999) ''MSF bioceramics applications of ceramic and glass materials in medicine'' Bioceramics r ... that resemble the composition of bone. He has developed two types of bioceramic, namely bulk ceramics (dense, porous, large and small) for mechanically unloaded bone fillers, and coatings for improving the bone bonding of strong, but less biocompatible, metallic orthopedic and dental implants. His group also studied the incorporation of drugs and growth factors such as Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP) into such ceramics and coatings, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas (DJ)
Klaas Gerling (born January 3, 1981), simply known as Klaas, is a German DJ and record producer from Cologne. Klaas worked under the label Scream & Shout. He has remixed songs for Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike (2016), DJ Antoine, Stromae, Armand Van Helden and Eric Morillo. He is best known for his remix of "Infinity" by Guru Josh, which topped the Belgian chart and peaked at number two on the Dutch chart in 2008. Producing Infinity 2008 (Klaas Vocal Edit) resulted in Gold, Silver, Platinum records in a number of countries and over 100 million views on the official YouTube video. His own release "Our Own Way" reached the top 10 in France in 2009. Since 2016, Klaas has collaborated with Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike and Dimitri Vegas' wife MATTN to produce remakes of past club hits such as "Ocarina", "Cafe Del Mar", "Universal Nation" and Robert Miles' "Children" (2019). Klaas' 2018 single "OK Without You" achieved more than 40 million streams on Spotify. Another of his singles rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Dijkhoff
Klaas Henricus Dominicus Maria Dijkhoff (born 13 January 1981) is a Dutch legal scholar and politician who led the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021. He previously was Minister of Defence (2017) and State Secretary for Security and Justice (2015–2017). A jurist by occupation, Dijkhoff resides in Breda. He was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in the 2010 general election. After the resignation of Fred Teeven, he was appointed to succeed him and resigned as a parliamentarian the same day he took office as State Secretary at the Ministry of Security and Justice in the Second Rutte cabinet on 20 March 2015. After the resignation of Minister of Defence Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Dijkhoff was nominated to serve out the remainder of her term in the already demissionary Second Rutte cabinet and resigned as State Secretary for Security and Justice on 4 October 2017 and served as Minister of Defence until t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Carel Faber
Klaas Carel Faber (20 January 1922 – 24 May 2012) was a convicted Dutch-German war criminal. He was the son of Pieter and Carolina Josephine Henriëtte (née Bakker) Faber, and the brother of Pieter Johan Faber, who was executed for war crimes in 1948. Faber was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals. Faber died in Germany in May 2012, having never been extradited. Second World War Faber was born in Haarlem, The Netherlands, to a family with a strong National-Socialist background. Like his father and his brother, Faber was a member of the National Socialist Movement, or NSB, before the war, and joined the Waffen SS a month after the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. After five months, he abandoned military training for less demanding police jobs in Rotterdam and The Hague. In May 1943, he became a German citizen with the passing of the ''Erlaß über den Erwerb der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit durch Einstellung in die deutsche Weh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Buchly
Nicolaas "Klaas" Buchly (26 January 1910 – 19 May 1965) was a Dutch track cyclist. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 2 km tandem sprint, together with Tinus van Gelder, and finished in fifth place. See also * List of Dutch Olympic cyclists This is a list of all Dutch cyclists who competed at the Summer Olympics. As of 2012 events in four cycling disciplines ( BMX, mountain biking, road cycling, and track cycling) have been contested at the Summer Olympics. Dutch cyclist did not com ... References 1910 births 1965 deaths Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Dutch male cyclists Cyclists from The Hague 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Bruinsma (drug Lord)
Klaas Bruinsma (6 October 1953 – 27 June 1991) was a major Dutch drug lord. He was shot dead on 27 June 1991 by organized crime member and former police officer Martin Hoogland. He was known as "De Lange" ("the tall one") and also as "De Dominee" ("the pastor") because of his black clothing and his habit of lecturing others. Early life Klaas Bruinsma was born in Amsterdam as the second child of Anton Bruinsma, a Dutch entrepreneur and Gwendolyn Theresa Mary Kelly, a British homemaker. He attended the "De Blauwe Reiger" kindergarten in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid and then the Spartaschool, also in Oud-Zuid. His parents divorced when he was seven years old. From that point forward, his father's housekeeper took over the responsibilities of raising Klaas and his siblings. Klaas' father was the founder of the Dutch soda drink manufacturer Raak. He would make Klaas and his three siblings clean the bottles from the factory on Sundays. Career During his high school years, Bruinsma start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Bruinsma (translator)
Klaas Bruinsma (February 1, 1931, Easterein – October 29, 2018, Drachten)Obituary of Klaas Bruinsma, ''Leeuwarder Courant'', October 31, 2018, p. 44. was a West Frisian language translator of historical works from Dutch, Spanish and Greek, among others. He translated the works Karel ende Elegast and Beatrijs. In 1993 he was awarded the Obe Postma prize for his translation from Greek of the tragedies of Sophocles. In 2005 he obtained this prize for the second time for his translation of Virgil's Georgics and especially for his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer. Until his retirement, Bruinsma was a lecturer of English and history at the Ichthus College in Drachten Drachten () is a town in the northern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Smallingerland, Friesland. It had a population of around 45,186 in January 2017 and is the second largest town in the province of Friesland. History Begin ..., amongst others. References External links In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Van Den Broek
Nicolaas Gerardus Maria "Klaas" van den Broek (born July 7, 1955) is a former professional Dutch ice hockey player, who was born in Tilburg, North Brabant. Van den Broek played for the Tilburg Trappers during the 1970s. He played all five matches for the Netherlands at the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected .... External links *Dutch Olympic Committee 1955 births Dutch ice hockey centres Ice hockey players at the 1980 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic ice hockey players of the Netherlands Sportspeople from Tilburg TYSC Trappers players {{Netherlands-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaas Breeuwer
Klaas Breeuwer (25 November 1901 – 24 April 1961) was a Dutch footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op .... References External links * 1901 births 1961 deaths Dutch footballers Netherlands international footballers Olympic footballers of the Netherlands Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Footballers from Zaanstad Association football forwards HFC Haarlem players {{Netherlands-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
