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Schouten
Schouten is a surname of Dutch origin. It generally has an occupational root, where the forebear was a schout, but can also be patronymic, as ''Schoute'' once was used as a given name. The name is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 37th in 2007 (17,626 people).Leender BrouwerThe top 100 surnames in the Netherlands/ref> Variations include ''Schout'', ''Schoute'', ''Schoutens'', ''Scholten'' and '' Scholte''. People with this surname include: * Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (b. 1962), Dutch politician * Antonie Schouten (b. 1946), Canadian field hockey player * (b. 1967), Dutch speedskating coach * Bas Schouten (b. 1994), Dutch racing driver * Bryan Schouten (b. 1994), Dutch motorcycle racer * Carola Schouten (b. 1977), Dutch politician * Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten (1923–2018), Dutch economist * Erik Schouten (b. 1991), Dutch footballer * (b. 1977), Dutch boxer * Gerrit Schouten (1779-1839), Surinamese diorama artist * Henk Schouten (1932–2018), Dutch footballer * Irene S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Arnoldus Schouten
Jan Arnoldus Schouten (28 August 1883 – 20 January 1971) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus, and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam. Biography Schouten was born in Nieuwer-Amstel to a family of eminent shipping magnates. He attended a Hogere Burger School, and later he took up studies in electrical engineering at the Delft Polytechnical School. After graduating in 1908, he worked for Siemens in Berlin and for a public utility in Rotterdam before returning to study mathematics in Delft in 1912. During his study he had become fascinated by the power and subtleties of vector analysis. After a short while in industry, he returned to Delft to study Mathematics, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1914 under supervision of Jacob Cardinaal with a thesis entitled . Schouten was an effective university administrator an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Schouten
Willem Cornelisz Schouten ( – 1625) was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean. Biography Willem Cornelisz Schouten was born in c. 1567 in Hoorn, Holland, Seventeen Provinces. In 1615 Willem Cornelisz Schouten and his younger brother Jan Schouten sailed from Texel in the Netherlands, in an expedition led by Jacob Le Maire and sponsored by Isaac Le Maire and his ''Australische Compagnie'' in equal shares with Schouten. The expedition consisted of two ships: ''Eendracht'' and ''Hoorn''.Quanchi, ''Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands'', pp. 222–33 A main purpose of the voyage was to search for ''Terra Australis''. A further objective was to explore a western route to the Pacific Ocean to evade the trade restrictions of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the Spice Islands. In 1616 Schouten rounded Cape Horn, which he named after the recently destroyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bas Schouten
Bas Schouten (born 19 October 1994 in Hoorn) is a Dutch auto racing driver. Schouten has raced in various international racing series such as the TCR International Series and Acceleration 2014. Career After a career in karting in his home country Schouten made his auto racing debut in 2010. Schouten was included in the KNAF Talent First programme together with Steijn Schothorst and Dennis van de Laar. De 15-year-old Dutch driver ran in the amateur BMW E30 Cup in a BMW 325i E30 entered by Bas Koeten Racing. Schouten also ran six races in the Dutch Formula Ford Duratec championship. The best result for the Dutch talent was fifth at Circuit Park Zandvoort. The following year Schouten finished third in the Formula Ford championship. At the annual Formula Ford Festival Schouten finished eighth out of 25 drivers. In 2012 the young Dutchman raced in the Formula Ford and the Benelux Radical SR3 Cup. In the Radical Cup Schouten ended up in the runner-up position in the championship. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Schouten
Lydia Schouten (born 1948, Leiden, Netherlands) is an internationally-known Dutch performance and video artist. Early in her career she critiqued traditional women's roles and the portrayal of women as sex objects. More recently, her work considers themes of loneliness, sex and violence. As of 2004, she lives in Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has held artist in residencies in several countries. Schouten received the Maaskant Award from city of Rotterdam in 1975. Education Schouten studied at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Free Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague from 1967 to 1971 and at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam from 1971 to 1976. Work From 1978 to 1981 she was mainly concerned with performance art, from 1981 to 1988 mainly with video art. She frequently appears in her videos, e.g. ''Romeo is bleeding'' (1982). In 1984, her work was included in ''The Luminous Image'', an international exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Frederik Schouten
Jan Frederik Schouten (29 May 1910 – 12 August 1980) was a Dutch physicist, and Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, known for his contributions to biophysics. H. BoumaLevensbericht J.F. Schouten in: ''Jaarboek, 1980'', Amsterdam, pp. 177 Biography Born in Rotterdam as son of Jan Arnoldus Schouten, Schouten received his PhD cum laude in 1937 in Physics at the Utrecht University with a thesis entitled "Visuele meting van adaptatie en van de wederzijdse beïnvloeding van netvlieselementen" under supervision of Leonard Ornstein. After graduations Schouten as researcher started working in industry at Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium led by Gilles Holst. Here he used optical techniques for the study of the acoustic problem. Schouten demonstrate that the way we perceive a pitch in the most sounds is different from the way Hermann von Helmholtz had proposed, and which had become generally accepted. Schouten became manager of the telephony group, where he sought ef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Schouten
Cornelia Johanna "Carola" Schouten (born 6 October 1977) is a Dutch politician serving as third Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister for Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions in the IV Rutte Cabinet since 10 January 2022. She has served as Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in the Third Rutte cabinet from 2017-2022. She is a member of the Christian Union (CU). Early life and education A native of 's-Hertogenbosch, Schouten grew up in Waardhuizen, managing her deceased father's dairy farm with her mother and her two sisters for four years, after which time the family ended the farming activities and moved to neighbouring village of Giessen (Waardhuizen and Giessen are nowadays located in the new municipality of Altena). She attended Altena College in Sleeuwijk and studied business administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam with a year abroad at Tel Aviv University. Schouten worked at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment from 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten
Dirk Bernard Joseph (Dick) Schouten (25 January 1923 – 3 February 2018) was a Dutch economist, and Professor of General Economics and Economic History at Tilburg University, known for his work concerning macroeconomic modelling. Biography Schouten received his PhD from Tilburg University in 1950 with a thesis entitledDe overheidsfinanciën in de volkshuishouding : een macro-economische studie over de betekenis van de openbare financiën op lange termijn voor de omvang, de verdeling en de besteding van het nationaal inkomen, supervised by M.J.H. Smeets. After his graduation, Schouten kept working for the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. In 1954, he got appointed Professor of Economics and History of Economics at Tilburg University. Among his doctoral students were Theo van de Klundert (PhD 1962), Piet A. Verheyen (PhD 1962), Ad Kolnaar (PhD 1969) and Wim van den Goorbergh (PhD 1978). In 1988, he retired as Professor of Economics at Tilburg University. On this occa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Schouten
Irene Schouten (; born 21 June 1992) is a Dutch speed skater who competes in allround marathon and inline-skating events. She is a five-time Olympic medalist and a triple Olympic Champion, having won the 3,000m, 5,000m, and mass start events at the 2022 Beijing Games. As of 12 February 2022, she holds the Olympic record in both distances (3000m & 5000m). Her coach is Jillert Anema. On 2 March 2014, Schouten finished in third place at the 2014 Dutch Allround Championships and qualified for the 2014 World Allround Championships in Thialf, Heerenveen Heerenveen (, fry, It Hearrenfean ) is a town and municipality in the province of Friesland (Fryslân), in the Northern Netherlands. In 2021, the town had a population of 29,790 (1 January) while the municipality had a population 50,859 (1 July). .... At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games she won the bronze medal in the mass start event. At the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Schouten became the most successful Dutch Olympic athlete of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Schouten
Peter Mark Schouten is an Australian artist and illustrator of publications in the field of zoology and palaeontology. David Attenborough termed his skills as "rare and precious" and among the world's best. His works are characterized by naturalism and faithfulness to detail, whereby Schouten incorporates his own ideas and assumptions in the reconstruction of extinct creatures and thus gives them an individual touch. His early works deal mainly with the fauna of his home continent Australia, the first book in which his illustrations emerge throughout, Prehistoric Animals of Australia, also addresses this topic. During his work as an illustrator and co-author, he worked with several scientists, including Tim Flannery (Astonishing Animals, winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2005, A Gap in Nature, Possums of the World) and John Long (Feathered Dinosaurs). Schouten became known internationally for his portrayal of ''Homo floresiensis'', which was published in 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Schouten
Bryan Schouten (born 10 September 1994) is a Dutch former motorcycle racer who retired at the end of the 2017 season. Schouten is a former winner of the Dutch ONK 125GP Championship and the Dutch ONK Moto3 Championship, and has also competed in the German IDM 125GP Championship, the German IDM Moto3 Championship, the Spanish CEV Moto3 series and the European Superstock 600 Championship. He won the IDM Superstock 600 Championship in 2016, but even as a champion he could not find the resources to start in 2017. He decided to stop his career , however, less than a week later, Schouten returned to his decision when Ten Kate Racing Products approached him for testing the new Honda CBR-1000RR SP2 and started in the (Dutch) NK SuperCup 1000. After one season, Schouten has decided to start his social career at the age of 23 years. But his dreams are that there will be time and opportunities to help young riders in the future - maybe even on a part-time schedule. Career statistics Grand Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerdy Schouten
Jerdy Schouten (; born 12 January 1997) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Bologna and the Netherlands national team. Club career Schouten made his professional debut in the Eredivisie for ADO Den Haag on 10 December 2016 in a game against N.E.C. In 2018, Schouten signed for Eredivisie side SBV Excelsior, where he signed a contract until 2021. For his performances in the 2018-19 Eredivisie season, Schouten was voted by the fans as the club's player of the year. On 4 July 2019, he signed for Italian football club Bologna. International career Schouten was first called up to the Dutch national team on 27 May 2022 for the Nations League matches against Belgium, Wales and Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous .... He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joost Schouten
Joost Schouten (c. 1600 – 1644) was a Dutch East Indies Company figure of considerable repute, in demand as an astute administrator, diplomat, courtier and negotiator for this Dutch colonial and mercantile outpost in the South-East Asian archipelago today known as Indonesia. In July 1644, Schouten was found to have engaged in homosexual sex with numerous men. Convicted of sodomy, a capital offence in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, he was burnt at the stake. Early life: 1600–1622 Born in the Netherlands, Schouten emigrated to the Dutch East Indies in 1622. Dutch East Indies Company career: 1624–1644 Over the next two decades, Schouten established a formidable reputation in colonial trade and diplomacy. He became involved in manufacturing and trade within a Siamese Dutch East Indies Company factory enclave in Ayutthaya in 1624 and shortly thereafter became secretary to Willem Janssen on the latter's exploratory trade and reconnaissance visit to Japan in 1625. In 1633, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
