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Smit is a Dutch occupational surname. It represents an archaic spelling of the Dutch word "smid" for "smith" (metal worker) and is the Dutch equivalent of the English surname Smith.Citation: Schulze, 2008 Frequency of occurrence in general populations Information for surname frequency in the Netherlands is limited by the end of comprehensive census taking in the year 1971. The most recent readily available information is based on the 1947 census, for which both raw census data and surname frequency data have been made available to the general public. In 1947 there were 29,783 recorded people with the surname Smit, while the general census provides a figure of 9,519,000 as the 1947 population. Working with this data the frequency of the Smit surname in the Netherlands in 1947 can be calculated to be ≈0.313% or ≈3,130 of every 1,000,000 people. By comparison, the most common Dutch surname in the 1947 data was de Jong, which had a frequency of ≈0.580%.(55,256/9,519,000)* ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith (metalwork)
A metalsmith or simply smith is a craftsperson fashioning useful items (for example, tools, kitchenware, tableware, jewelry, armor and weapons) out of various metals. Smithing is one of the oldest metalworking occupations. Shaping metal with a hammer (forging) is the archetypical component of smithing. Often the hammering is done while the metal is hot, having been heated in a forge. Smithing can also involve the other aspects of metalworking, such as refining metals from their ores (traditionally done by smelting), casting it into shapes (founding), and filing to shape and size. The prevalence of metalworking in the culture of recent centuries has led ''Smith'' and its equivalents in various languages to be a common occupational surname (German Schmidt or Schmied, Portuguese Ferreiro, Ferreira, French Lefèvre, Spanish Herrero, Italian Fabbri, Ferrari, Ferrero, Ukrainian Koval etc.). As a suffix, ''-smith'' connotes a meaning of a specialized craftsperson—for example, ''w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolein Smit
Carolein Smit (born 1960) is a Dutch ceramic art sculptor whose work often includes animals or skeletons. Life and education Smit was born on 22 October 1960 in Amersfoort. She was educated at the AKV St. Joost in Breda from 1979 to 1984, studying graphics and lithography. For the next thirteen years she works as an illustration artist for various magazines and newspapers until a 3-months residency at the European Ceramic Work Center (ECWC) in Den Bosch in 1995 during which she falls in love with clay. As of this moment, she chooses ceramics as her favorite medium of expression and employs transgressive beauty that contradicts commonly held convictions about what makes something appealing. Her fascination with contrasts: the ugly but adorable, or the frightening but fragile, provides a reminder about the vulnerability and impermanence of life, and the inevitability of death. Career Smit is known for figurative "enigmatic sculptures" depicting ceramic animals like dogs, hare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Smit (writer)
Peter Smit (born April 13, 1952 in Uitgeest ) is a Dutch children's writer and . From 1997-2001, Smit belonged to the Foundation Board LIRA, and from 1998 to 2004 he sat on the board of the Association of Writers. Since 2004 he has been director of the Foundation P.C. Hooft Prize. From 1995, Smit specialized in writing novels. He also published many picture books
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Monique Smit
Margaret Gertrude Mary (Monique) Smit (born 9 April 1989) is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Early life Monique grew up in Volendam as the younger sister of Jan Smit. After finishing school, she attended Don Bosco College, and later became a hairdresser. Career Smit participated in her brother's reality series ''Gewoon Jan Smit''. She presented the show ''Zapp Kids Top 20'' for TROS and ''Wild van Muziek'' broadcast on Sterren 24. She also appeared in the reality show ''Just the Two of Us'' in 2007 where she came in second and performed in a duet with Xander de Buisonjé. Smit debuted with her solo "Wild", which was in top five in 2007. One year later she released her first solo album ''Stel Je Voor'', which contains singles like ""Vrouwenalfabet" and "Stel Je Voor". Smit has released four music albums and several music singles. Albums *''Stel je voor imited edition' (2008) *''Verder 4 tracks' (2010) *''Grenzeloos'' (in partnership with Tim Douwsma Tim Douw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Smit
Marianne Smit (born 1984) is a Dutch harpist. Biography Marianne Smit started playing the harp in 1995 when she was nine years old. Initially she was taught by her mother Gertru Smit-Pasveer, the sister of flutist Kathinka Pasveer. After one year she became student of Anke Anderson. She was among the first to be entered into the Young Talent department of the Amsterdam Conservatory in 1998, where she received the guidance of Erika Waardenburg. Her aunt's close associate Karlheinz Stockhausen composed a harp duet for Smit and Esther Kooi, '' Freude'', which premiered on June 7, 2006 in the Duomo of Milan. She passed her Bachelor's exam cum laude in June 2007. Smit has participated in audition training with Petra van der Heide, a harpist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In this course she won the first prize which earned her a spot on the orchestra in two of their concerts. She has participated several times in productions of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Smit
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Leo Smit (American Composer)
Leo Smit (January 12, 1921 – December 12, 1999) was an American composer and pianist. Life Leo Smit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child his mother took him to the Soviet Union where he studied with the composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. He later studied piano in New York with Isabella Vengerova and José Iturbi and composition with Nicolas Nabokov. While working as George Balanchine's rehearsal pianist, he met Igor Stravinsky. He often gave thematic recitals – sometimes illustrated with his own slides – and performed a great deal of new music, especially works by Aaron Copland. His breakthrough as a composer came in 1957, when the Boston Symphony Orchestra played his First Symphony. In that year he moved to Los Angeles to teach at the University of California. From 1962 he taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He wrote two operas: ''The Alchemy of Love'' (1969), in collaboration with the British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, with whom he also work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Smit (Dutch Composer)
Leopold "Leo" Smit (14 May 1900 – 30 April 1943) was a Dutch composer, murdered during The Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp. Life He came from a mixed Ashkenazi and Sephardi family. He was born at 17, Amsterdam, and studied piano at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Sem Dresden and Ulfert Schults and then composition with Bernard Zweers and Sem Dresden. In 1927 he moved to Paris, where the music of Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky made a deep impression on him. Here he was in close contact with the group of composers known as ''Les Six'', which included Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, and Francis Poulenc. He married Lien de Vries in Amsterdam in January 1933. At the end of 1936, Smit moved to Brussels, where he stayed for a year. In late 1937, he returned to Amsterdam, where he completed his last work, the sonata for flute and piano, on February 12, 1943. On April 27, 1943 he was deported to Sobibor, where he was killed three days later. After his death the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Smit
Joseph Smit (18 July 1836 – 4 November 1929) was a Dutch zoological illustrator. L.B. Holthuis, Leiden, (1958, 1995) ''Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, 1820 - 1958''. page 47reprint manuscript, PDF Background Smit was born in Lisse. He received his first commission from Hermann Schlegel at the Leiden Museum to work on the lithographs for a book on the birds of the Dutch East Indies. In 1866 he was invited to Britain by Philip Sclater to do the lithography for Sclater's ''Exotic Ornithology''; he prepared a hundred images for the book. He also did the lithography for his friend Joseph Wolf's ''Zoological Sketches'', as well as Daniel Giraud Elliot's monographs on the Phasianidae and Paradisaeidae. Beginning in the 1870s, he worked on the ''Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum'' (1874–1898, edited by Richard Bowdler Sharpe), and later on Lord Lilford's ''Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands''. Smit contributed illustrations to John Gould's boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Smit (singer)
Jan Smit (born 31 December 1985) is a Dutch singer, television host, and actor. Smit mostly sings songs in the Dutch language, in a genre known as ''Volendam music''. In addition to his solo career, in 2015 Smit joined the schlager trio KLUBBB3, and in 2017 The Toppers. As a TV presenter, he has worked on programs like the ''Beste Zangers'' (Best Singers in the Netherlands) and ''Sterren Muziekfeest op het Plein'' (Music Festival on the square.) Since 1999, Smit has been serving as an ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages, and is a member of the board for the football club FC Volendam. Career 1996–2004: International success as Jantje Smit Jantje Smit began his music career in Volendam where he sang in a boys' choir called ''De Zangertjes van Volendam''. Smit was discovered at the age of ten, when the famous Dutch band BZN asked him to participate in a duet with one of their lead singers, Carola Smit. They recorded the song ''Mama'' which was very successful. Because o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Smit
Howard J. Smit (April 19, 1911 – August 1, 2009) was a pioneering American film make-up artist known for his work on films including '' The Birds'' and '' The Wizard of Oz''. Smit also spearheaded the movement to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup to recognize the profession within the film industry. He also successfully pushed studios to credit film make-up artists in a movie's screen credits. Smit became a founding member of the IATSE local 706, Make-up and Hairstylists Guild chapter, in 1937. Early life Howard Smit was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 19, 1911. He moved with his parents to Los Angeles, where he eventually enrolled in law school. Career Smit began working as a make-up artist at RKO Studios in order to pay for law school. He soon dropped out of law school and became a film studio make-up apprentice. He freelanced for several studios and businesses, including MGM Studios, Republic Studios and Max Factor. Smit's earliest work film work include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
