Diderik or Didrik is a
Norwegian
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to:
*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
*Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
*Demographics of Norway
*The Norwegian language, including the ...
male given name. In
North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also r ...
, the native form would be ''Tjodrik'', but ''Diderik'' and ''Didrik'' have been loaned from Low German and are now a common name in Norway. It may also be a variant of the related
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
name
Diederik
Diederik Diederick is a Dutch language, Dutch male given name. People with the name include:
*Diederik Aerts (born 1953), Belgian theoretical physicist
*Diederik Bangma (born 1990), Dutch football goalkeeper
*Diederik Boer (born 1980), Dutch f ...
. People with the name include:
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Diderik Batens
Diderik Batens (born 15 November 1944), is a Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent, known chiefly for his work on adaptive and paraconsistent logics. His epistemological views may be broadly characterized as fallibilist
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(born 1944), Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent
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Diderik Bøgvad
Diderik Kornelius Mortensen Bøgvad (4 March 1792 – 31 December 1857) was a Norwegian politician.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1842, representing the rural constituency of ''Lister og Mandals Amt'' (today named Vest-Agder). He s ...
(1792–1857), Norwegian politician
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Diderik von Cappelen
Diderik von Cappelen (21 June 1761 – 3 April 1828) was a Norwegian wholesaler, merchant, shipowner, estate owner and politician in 1814. He is often referred to as Diderik von Cappelen but he spelt his name ''Didrich von Cappelen'' and is also ...
(1761–1828), Norwegian merchant and politician
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Diderik Hegermann Rye Diderik Hegermann Rye (18 May 1832 – 1914) was a Norwegian civil servant.
He was born in Bø i Telemark as a son of lieutenant colonel Johan Mathias Rye and Kristiane Elisabeth Gasmann. He was a nephew of Olaf Rye and Johan Henrik Rye, and brothe ...
(1832–1914), Norwegian civil servant
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Diderik Hegermann
Diderik Hegermann (6 December 1763 – 7 February 1835) was a military officer and government minister of Norway. He served as a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814.
Biography
Diderik Hegermann was born at Altona in Schleswig-H ...
(1763–1835), Norwegian councillor of state and Minister of the Army
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Diderik Schnitler
Diderik Børsting Schnitler (born 23 October 1946) is a Norwegian businessperson.
He hails from Stabekk, and in his younger days he was the treasurer and an active tennis player for Stabekk TK. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technolo ...
(born 1946), Norwegian businessperson
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Diderik Iversen Tønseth
Diderik Iversen Tønseth (24 September 1818 – 12 January 1893) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament
The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of ...
(1818–1893), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
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Diderik Wagenaar
Diderik Wagenaar (born 10 May 1946 in Utrecht) is a Dutch composer and musical theorist.
Life and work
Wagenaar has lived and worked all his adult life in The Hague. Born to a musical family that includes Johan Wagenaar, he began playing piano at ...
(born 1946), Dutch composer and musical theorist
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Didrik Pining
Didrik Pining ( 1430 – 1491) was a German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus.
In 1925, researcher Sofus Larson proposed that Pining may have landed in North America in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' vo ...
(c. 1430 – 1491), German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland
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Norwegian masculine given names