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Margaretha
Margaretha is the standard Dutch form of the feminine given name Margaret as well as a common form of it in Sweden. In daily life, many use a short form, like ''Gré'', '' Greet'', ''Greta'', '' Grietje'', '' Marga'', ''Margo'', ''Margot'', ''Margreet'', '' Margriet'', and ''Meta''. People with the name include: *Margaretha von Bahr (1921—2016), Finnish ballerina and choreographer *Margaretha van Bancken (1628–1694), Dutch publisher *Margaretha Cornelia Boellaard (1795–1872), Dutch painter, lithographer and art collector * Margaretha "Margreeth" de Boer (born 1939), Dutch government minister *Margaretha Byström (born 1937), Swedish actress, writer and director *Margaretha Coppier (1516–1597), Dutch noble and a heroine of the Dutch war of liberation * Margaretha Donner (1726–1774), Swedish business person *Margaretha Dros-Canters (1900–1934), Dutch hockey, badminton- and tennis player * Margaretha Brita "Greta" Duréel (died 1696), Swedish noble bank fraudster * Margareth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Von Bahr
Margaretha von Bahr ( Wasenius, from 1952 von Bahr-Sorsa; 11 December 1921 — 21 February 2016) was a Finnish ballet dancer, choreographer and pedagog. She has been described as a leading ballet star of the post-war era in Finland. Career Dance Starting ballet lessons from the age of seven, Margaretha Wasenius went on to train at the Ballet of Finland (later to become the Finnish National Ballet) school from 1928, and was eventually attached to the company's ''corps de ballet'' in 1938. She spent the war years in Sweden, studying and working at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Upon returning to Finland, she was in 1946 appointed principal dancer, which position she held until her retirement in 1964. During her time at the National Ballet, von Bahr danced nearly all the female lead roles in the company's repertoire. Von Bahr toured extensively in Europe and North America in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, both as a soloist and with the National Ballet company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha De Heer
Margaretha de Heer (1603–1665) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Margaretha de Heer was born in Leeuwarden in the Dutch Republic in 1603. She was the daughter of the glass painter Arjen Willems de Heer, and the older sister of the artist Gerrit Adriaensz de Heer.Margaretha de Heer in the She was taught by her father, who kept a large workshop on the corner of the Herestraat and Oude Oosterstraat in Leeuwarden, and on 21 September 1628 she married the painter Andries Pieters Nyhof or Nieuwhof.Margareta Arjensdr. on |
Margaretha Coppier
Margaretha Coppier or Margaretha van Kalslagen (1516, Alphen aan den Rijn – 1597, Breda) was a Dutch noble and a heroine of the Dutch war of liberation. Coppier was the daughter of Jacob Coppier, lord of Kalslagen and Alphen, and Margaretha van Roon. Her brothers and half-brothers all became active members of the Dutch rebellion. Coppier married Joachim Burgher, a polymath known as "Polites" from Goes, who before their marriage had become scribe of Antwerp in 1541. After his death in 1569 she married his successor as scribe, Willem Martini.Els KloekCoppier, Margarethain: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, 13 January 2014 In 1574 William the Silent devised a plan to liberate Antwerp from within by infiltrating the city with soldiers who would take shelters in houses and inns. Both Coppier's brother Andries and her husband took part in the plot. The Spanish governor Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga (25 August 1528 – 5 March 1576) was a Spanish ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Cornelia Boellaard
Margaretha Cornelia Boellaard (9 February 1795, Utrecht – 5 November 1872, Utrecht) was a Dutch painter, lithographer and art collector. Biography She came from a wealthy noble family. Her father, Johan Diderick, was the Heer (Baron or Lord) of Zuilichem. Her mother, Margaretha, died six days after she was born and her father never remarried, so she remained an only child.Brief biography @ Huygens. She received private art lessons from the portrait painters and his son, also named as well as the landscape painter, . In 1825, she was also able to audit classes at the in Amsterdam. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Haverman
Margaretha Haverman (bapt. 28 October 1693 – after 1739) was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography She was born in Breda as the daughter of Daniël Haverman, a captain in the Danish army who settled in Amsterdam to become director of a boys' school there.Margaretha Haverman on In the 20 page biography of written by , the only woman he mentioned is Haverman who Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Van Bancken
Margaretha van Bancken (Amsterdam 1628 - Haarlem 1694) was a Dutch publisher from Haarlem. Biography She was the daughter of Dirck van Bancken and Anna Noppen.Margarita van Bancken in ''Alfabetische lijst der boekdrukkers, boekverkoopers en uitgevers in Noord-Nederland sedert de uitvinding der boekdrukkunst tot den aanvang der negentiende eeuw, by Adrianus Marinus Ledeboer, 1876 in archive.org She married the city printer on 19 April 1661, . in 1001 Vrouwen Their son, |
Margaretha Kirch
Margaretha Kirch (b. ca. 1703, d. after 1744) was a German astronomer. Early life She was the daughter of the astronomers Gottfried Kirch and Maria Margarethe Kirch and the sister of Christfried Kirch. She and her sister Christine Kirch Christine Kirch (1696 in Guben, Germany – 6 May 1782), was a German astronomer. Life She was the daughter of the astronomers Gottfried Kirch and Maria Margarethe Kirch and the sister of Christfried Kirch. She and her sister Margaretha Kirch we ... were educated in astronomy and worked as their parents' and, later, their brother's assistants. Few details are known about her life. She was seven years old when her father died. She never married. Like her sister Christine, she was taught astronomy at the age of 10, and both initially assisted her brother Christfried with his observations. Margaretha later made observations of the weather and the starry sky, which she recorded in a weather observation diary. Work at the Berlin Observatory In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Byström
Margaretha Byström (born 2 August 1937, in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress (film, theater, television), writer and director. Margaretha is most famous for her portrayal as the elegant and ambitious Katarina Remmer in the long running Swedish soap opera ''Rederiet''. Selected filmography *''Paradise Place ''Paradise Place'' ( sv, Paradistorg) is a 1977 Swedish drama film directed by Gunnel Lindblom. Birgitta Valberg won the award for Best Actress at the 13th Guldbagge Awards. Cast * Marianne Aminoff as Christina * Maria Blomkvist as Eva * An ...'' (1977) *'' A Walk in the Sun'' (1978) References External links * Swedish actresses 1937 births Living people Eugene O'Neill Award winners {{Sweden-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Van Godewijk
Margaretha van Godewijk (30 August 1627, Dordrecht – 2 November 1677, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter. Biography According to Houbraken her father was a teacher at the Latin school in Dordrecht who taught her Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English. She could understand Hebrew, and was clever at making rhymes.Margarita Godewyk Biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the She learned to paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Flesch
Margaretha Flesch (24 February 1826 – 25 March 1906) was a German Roman Catholic professed religious who established the Franciscan Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels. Flesch assumed the new religious name of "Maria Rosa" after she made her profession into her own order and was its first Mother Superior. She tended to the poor and to the ill as well as orphaned children before becoming a nun and also oversaw the construction of both an orphanage and a hospital. Flesch also had practical experience in nursing and worked as a home nurse and a nurse to children. Her beatification was celebrated on 4 May 2008 after Pope Benedict XVI approved a singular miracle attributed to her; Cardinal Joachim Meisner presided on the pope's behalf. Her feast is set for 19 June – the date of her solemn profession – rather than the date of her death. Life Margaretha Flesch was born in 1826 in the German Confederation to Johann Georg Flesch. Her mother died in 1832 and her fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Heijkenskjöld
Margaretha Charlotta Heijkensköld (19 August 1781 – 29 July 1834, Remla, Syria), was a Swedish traveler and a dress reformer. She attracted a lot of attention from her contemporaries by her journeys. Margaretha Heijkensköld was the daughter of the noble Councillor Detlof Heijkensköld the Younger (1751–1824) and Lovisa Ulrica Victorin (1756-1825). Late in life, she inherited a fortune, which she used to finance her interest in foreign travel and the study of foreign culture. She was described as an independent person with a great ability to adapt. She never married, and the fact that she traveled, and traveled alone, in a period when women seldom did the first and never the second, drew a lot of attention. She visited Paris, Vienna and Italy before she traveled in the Middle East. She died in Romla in Syria after a visit in Jerusalem. Notes and drawings from her travels are preserved. In 1816 Margaretha Heijkenskjöld introduced a new Folk costume A folk costume (also r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Guidone
Margaretha Guidone (born c. 1956) is a housewife from Helmond (the Netherlands) living in Kapellen (Belgium) who became famous in Flanders because of her campaign for the environment and against global warming.Weinig weerklank in wereldpers voor Kapelse huisvrouw – , 17 November 2006Huisvrouw promoot documentaire Al Gore – |
