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Maurits
Maurits is the Dutch equivalent of the masculine given name Maurice. People with the name include: Royalty * Prince Maurice of Nassau, (1567–1625), military leader of the Dutch Republic, son of William I of Orange * Count John Maurice of Nassau, (1604–1679) also known as 'the Brazilian' * Prince Maurice of the Netherlands (1843–1850), second son of King William III * Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (born 1968) Other people * Maurits, pseudonym of Paulus Adrianus Daum (1850–1898), Dutch author * Maurits Allessie (born 1945), Dutch physiologist * Maurits de Baar (born 1997), Dutch footballer * Maurits Basse (1868–1944), Belgian writer and teacher * Maurits Binger (1868–1923), Dutch film director * Maurits van den Boogert (born 1972, Dutch historian of the Ottoman Empire * Maurits Caransa (1916–2009), Dutch real-estate developer and kidnapping victim * Maurits Coppieters (1920–2005), Belgian politician * Maurits Crucq (born 1968), Dutch field hoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maurice Of Nassau
John Maurice of Nassau (Dutch: ''Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen''; German: ''Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen''; Portuguese: ''João Maurício de Nassau-Siegen''; 17 June 1604 – 20 December 1679), called "the Brazilian" for his fruitful period as governor of Dutch Brazil, was Count and (from 1664) Prince of Nassau-Siegen. He served as ''Herrenmeister'' (equivalent to Grand Master) of the Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg) from 1652 until his death in 1679. The former residence of John Maurice in The Hague, Netherlands, is now an art museum named Mauritshuis, which means "Maurice House" in Dutch. Early years in Europe He was born in Dillenburg, and his father was John VII of Nassau-Siegen. His grandfather John VI of Nassau was the younger brother of Dutch ''stadtholder'' William the Silent of Orange, making him a grandnephew of William the Silent. He joined the Dutch army in 1621, at a very early age. He distinguished himself in the campaigns of his cousin, the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Maurits Of Orange-Nassau, Van Vollenhoven
Prince Maurits Willem Pieter Hendrik of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (born 17 April 1968) is a member of the Dutch royal family as the eldest son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven. Before the succession of his cousin Willem-Alexander as King, he was a member of the Dutch Royal House and tenth in the line of succession to the Dutch throne. With Willem-Alexander's succession however, he is no longer a member of the Dutch Royal House, and is no longer in line to direct succession to the Dutch throne. Life and career Maurits was born on 17 April 1968. His godparents are Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Prince Alois-Konstantin of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Jhr. G. Krayenhof, and The Dutch Merchant Fleet. Van Vollenhoven has three brothers: Bernhard, Pieter-Christiaan, Floris. In 1987, van Vollenhoven performed military service with the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps and the Royal Netherlands Navy. He graduated at University of Gronin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurits Van Rooijen
Maurits van Rooijen FRSA (born 1956) is a Dutch socio-economic historian and geographer. His research has concentrated on green urbanisation and re-interpreting garden city principles. In recent publications he has promoted the concept of the "Global Knowledge City" arguing that in "the 21st century besides the need to blend urbanisation with agriculture and manufacturing (the original garden city mission), global knowledge innovation should be at the core of sustainable urbanisation." In 2013 he was awarded the prize for EAIE Constance Meldrum Award for Vision & Leadership. Since 2012, he has been the CEO & Rector of the London School of Business and Finance (LSBF). Early years Born in Breda, Netherlands in 1956, Maurits van Rooijen attended the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe lyceum (gymnasium beta) and studied at Utrecht University. In parallel to his postgraduate in ''Social and Economic History'' degree, he also did the postgraduate programme in ''Sociology for Built Environment''. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurits Van Nierop
Maurits William Albert van Nierop (11 May 1983 – 24 September 2008) was a Dutch international cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler,Maurits van Nierop at CricketArchive he played for the from 2002 until 2006, and had been named in the Dutch winter squad shortly before his death.Maurits van Nierop dies in South Africa by Rod Lyall, 24 September 2008 at CricketEurope Biogra ...
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Maurits Caransa
Maurits "Maup" Caransa (5 January 1916 – 6 August 2009) was a Dutch businessman who became one of the most important real-estate developers in post-World War II Amsterdam. Caransa was the first well-known Dutch person to be kidnapped for ransom. Caransa owned and built many notable buildings in Amsterdam including the Maupoleum (now demolished) and the Caransa Hotel (still standing on the Rembrandtplein). He influenced the Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax, through his friendship with its chairman, and by supporting the team and players financially. Biography Caransa was born on 5 January 1916 into a family of Sephardi Jews in Amsterdam. He grew up poor, and had his first paying job at age 5. At age 16, according to a well-known story, he bought a wrecked car for one and a half guilders, sold the parts for profit, then bought more cars. World War II During World War II, according to Frank Bovenkerk, emeritus professor of criminal science in Utrecht, Caransa, angered by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for most of his life neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, Harold Coxeter and crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation. Early in his career, he drew inspiration fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurits Basse
Maurits Basse (5 September 1868 – 18 February 1944) was a Belgian writer and teacher, one of the founders of the Liberaal Vlaams Verbond. Basse was born at Ledeberg. He became a professor at the University of Ghent Ghent University ( nl, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the ..., where he remained until his death. He was editor of the journal ''Het Volksbelang'' and of the ''De Vlaamse Gids''. Bibliography * Maurits Basse, ''Stijlaffectatie Bij Shakespeare'',Kessinger Publishing, LLC (1895) * Maurits Basse, ''Het Aandeel der Vrouw in de Nederlandse Letterkunde'', Deel I, Gent, Uitgevers- en Boekdrukkershuis AD. Hoste (1920) * Maurits Basse, ''Het Aandeel der Vrouw in de Nederlandse Letterkunde'', Deel II, Gent, Uitgevers- en Boekdrukkershuis AD. Hoste (1921) * Maurits Basse, ''De Vlaamsche b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Of Nassau
Maurice of Orange ( nl, Maurits van Oranje; 14 November 1567 – 23 April 1625) was '' stadtholder'' of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic except for Friesland from 1585 at the earliest until his death in 1625. Before he became Prince of Orange upon the death of his eldest half-brother Philip William in 1618, he was known as Maurice of Nassau. Maurice spent his youth in Dillenburg in Nassau, and studied in Heidelberg and Leiden. He succeeded his father William the Silent as stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland in 1585, and became stadtholder of Utrecht, Guelders and Overijssel in 1590, and of Groningen in 1620. As Captain-General and Admiral of the Union, Maurice organized the Dutch rebellion against Spain into a coherent, successful revolt and won fame as a military strategist. Under his leadership and in cooperation with the Land's Advocate of Holland Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the Dutch States Army achieved many victories and drove the Spaniards out of the north and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurits Sabbe
Maurits Sabbe, born Maurice Charles Marie Guillaume Sabbe (Bruges, 9 February 1873 – Antwerp, 12 February 1938), was a Flemish man of letters and educator who became curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Life He was a son of Julius Sabbe and the eldest of seven children. He grew up in Bruges, going to school there, and studied philology at the University of Ghent, obtaining a doctorate in 1896 with a thesis on Jan Luyken.Louis Gillet, "Sabbe (Maurits)", ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 41(Brussels, 1979), 704–709 He became a secondary school teacher, working at a number of different establishments. In 1899 he married Gabriëlla De Smet. From 1903 to 1919 he taught at the Koninklijk Atheneum in Mechelen, also providing Dutch classes at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp from 1907. In 1919 he was appointed curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum. During this period he published on the Plantin Press, the Verdussen family, and the poetry and pamphleteering of the 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurits Hendriks
Maurits Gijsbreght Hendriks (born 1 January 1961 in Amsterdam) is a field hockey coach from the Netherlands, who himself played as a goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ... in the 1980s in Enschede. External links www.mauritshendriks.com*Maurits Hendriks on NOC*NSF-site*Article in NRC Handelsblad {{DEFAULTSORT:Hendriks, Maurits 1961 births Living people Dutch field hockey coaches Field hockey players from Amsterdam Spanish Olympic coaches Dutch expatriates in Spain Dutch male field hockey players Male field hockey goalkeepers Dutch sports executives and administrators AFC Ajax non-playing staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurits Post
Maurits Post (ca. 10 December 1645 – 6 June 1677) was a Dutch Golden Age architect. Biography Post was born in Haarlem, the son of the architect Pieter Post, and was probably his assistant, as he took over his father's projects when he died in 1669, and continued working in the neo-classical style.Maurits Post in the He worked in Siegen, The Hague, Dieren, , Soestdijk, and Zuilenstein. He became the architect for |
Maurits Allessie
Maurits Allessie (born 1945) is an emeritus professor of physiology at Maastricht University. As an electrophysiologist he developed better insights in atrial fibrillation. Career Allessie was born in 1945 in Gemert, the Netherlands, and was raised in Amsterdam. He obtained his MD from the University of Amsterdam in 1974, and his PhD from Maastricht University in 1977. At age 38 he became a professor of physiology at the latter university, and seven years later he became head of the department. During his career Allessie studied heart problems. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Heart Rhythm Society, and in 2011 the Founders Lectureship Award. Allessie became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. The academy praised Allessie for developing better insights into atrial fibrillation and electrophysiology Electrophysiology (from Greek , ''ēlektron'', "amber" etymology of "electron"">Electron#Etymology">etymology of "elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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