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Dirk (name)
Dirk is a male given name of Dutch language, Dutch origin. It is a traditional diminutive of the Dutch name Diederik. The meaning of the name is "the people's ruler", composed of ''þeud'' ("people") and ''ric'' ("power"). Dirk may also be a surname. It is cognate to French Thierry, German Dietrich (other), Dietrich and Gothic Theoderic. People with the given name * Dirk I, Count of Holland (died 944) * Dirk II, Count of Holland (944–988) * Dirk III, Count of Holland (died 1039) * Dirk IV, Count of Holland (1020–1049) * Dirk V, Count of Holland (1052–1091) * Dirk VI, Count of Holland (1114–1157) * Dirk VII, Count of Holland (died 1203) * Dirk Bach (1961–2012), German actor * Dirk Bauermann (born 1957), German basketball coach * Dirk Benedict (born 1945), American actor * Dirk Bezemer (born 1971), Dutch economist * Dirk Bikkembergs (born 1959), Belgian fashion designer * Dirk Blocker (born 1957), American actor * Dirk Bolt (1930–2020), Dutch-born architect * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk I, Count Of Holland
Dirk I (Frisian languages, Frisian or , Latin or , German language, German ) was count of West Frisia, later known as the County of Holland. He is thought to have been in office from to or 939. 'Count in Frisia' The actual title of count Dirk I was 'count in Frisia'. Dirk is thought to be a son of Gerolf of Holland, Gerulf II, the preceding 'count in Frisia', who is named by some sources as one of the counts who assassinated their Viking overlord Godfrid, Duke of Frisia, Godfrid 'the Sea King' at a place named Herespich (modern Spijk, Zevenaar, Spijk) in 885. Regarding Dirk I, almost nothing is known of his life, a situation further clouded by the present-day hypothesis that he had a son, Dirk (numbered Dirk I bis, to avoid confusion with the already established numbering), who succeeded him instead of the traditional view that he was succeeded by his supposed son Dirk II. Founding of Egmond Abbey In 922 Dirk was present at a place called ''Bladella'' (present-day Bladel, in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bauermann
Dirk Bauermann (born 10 December 1957) is a German professional basketball coach. Playing career Bauermann played sports club, club basketball in the German senior club of BBC Krefeld, from 1975 to 1981. Club coaching career Bauermann was an assistant coach at Fresno State University, with the Fresno State Bulldogs men's basketball, Fresno State Bulldogs, from 1986 to 1988. He was then an assistant coach with the Basketball Bundesliga, German League club Bayer Giants Leverkusen, TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen during the 1988-89 season, before becoming the team's head coach prior to the 1989-90 season. With Leverkusen, he won 7 German champions (basketball), German League championships and 4 German Basketball Cup, German Cups, and was twice named the German League's Coach of the Year. He then coached the Ethias League, Belgian League club BC Oostende, Oostende, and after that, the Greek club Apollon Patras BC, Apollon Patras, which was competing in the HEBA A2, Greek Second Division at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Cussler
Dirk Cussler (born 1961) is an American author. He is the son of best selling author Clive Cussler and a co-author of several Dirk Pitt adventure novels, as well as being the namesake of the Pitt character. Early life and education Cussler was born in 1961; he has an MBA from Berkeley. Career Cussler worked for many years in finance before assisting his father in writing the latest novels in the ''Dirk Pitt'' series. Cussler also plays an integral part in the non-profit foundation National Underwater and Marine Agency The National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) is a private non-profit organization in the United States founded in 1979. Originally it was a fictional US government organization in the novels of author Clive Cussler. Cussler later created and, ..., which was founded by his father. Cussler is head of the council of NUMA and is also a member of the NUMA's Board of Trustees. Bibliography *'' Black Wind'' (2004), co-written with Clive Cussler *'' Treasure of Khan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Crabeth
Dirk (or Dirck) Pietersz Crabeth (1501 – 1574) was a Dutch Renaissance glass painter, tapestry designer, and mapmaker. He was employed by the Janskerk (Gouda) during the 16th century, where he created eight of the stained glass windows during the years 1555–1571. His windows are one of the reasons that the church was placed on the UNESCO list of monuments. Biography He and his talented brother Wouter Crabeth I were the sons of Pieter Dirckz of Gouda.Bio sketch on Dirk in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam They came from a painting family that was employed in the glass industry of Gouda. Archival evidence survives today showing orders of glass panes from various Netherlands towns. Dirk's fame began when he won a commission to make a glass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Coster
Dirk Coster (5 October 1889 – 12 February 1950) was a Dutch physicist. He was a professor of physics and meteorology at the University of Groningen. Coster is known as the co-discoverer of hafnium (element 72) in 1923, along with George de Hevesy, by means of X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore. Its name is derived from ''Hafnia'', the Latin name for Copenhagen, as the discovery took place in that city. He helped Lise Meitner escape from Nazi Germany. Childhood and education Coster was born in Amsterdam. Coster grew up in a large working-class family; he was the third child of Barend Coster, a blacksmith, and Aafje van der Mik. The Coster family valued education. Ten of their children survived to adulthood and all received enough education to go onto middle-class professions. From 1904 to 1908 Dirk went to the Teacher's College in Haarlem, then was a teacher until 1913. With the aid of private support he was able to study mathematics and physics at the Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Chivers
Dirk Chivers (, last name occasionally Shivers) was a Dutch pirate active in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Early career Dirk Chivers is first recorded as a crew member of the ''Portsmouth Adventure'', , under Captain Joseph Faro (or Farrell) around January 1694. Soon after leaving Rhode Island, Chivers saw action in the Red Sea as Farrell and Henry Every successfully captured two ships in June 1695. On its return voyage to Rhode Island, the ''Adventure'' ran aground on Mayotte in the Comoro Islands. Chivers stayed behind with several others while Farrell and the others continued on with Every. Chivers in the Red Sea & India Chivers eventually signed aboard the 18-gun ''Resolution'' after being picked up by Captain Robert Glover near the end of the year. After several months in the Red Sea however, Chivers took part in a mutiny against Glover and had him and his 24 supporters placed onto the recently captured Arab ship ''Rajapura''. Elected captain by the crew after the mutiny, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bruinenberg
Dirk Bruinenberg (born 21 August 1968) is a Dutch musician known as the former drummer of several European progressive metal and power metal bands, including: Elegy, Ian Parry's Consortium Project and Adagio. He is often recognized for his intricate drumming style and technical double bass patterns. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Bruinenberg played with Dutch thrash metal bands Abyss and Vulture. Subsequently, he joined Elegy in 1993, replacing original drummer Ed Warby of Gorefest. He recorded seven albums with Elegy until 2002. The band toured throughout Europe and Japan alongside Stratovarius, Kamelot, Annihilator, Phantom Blue, The Gathering, Gorefest and others. After Elegy, Bruinenberg joined French progressive metal band Adagio with whom he recorded their first two albums. He left the band in late 2003, citing personal reasons coupled with conflicting schedules. His performance in Adagio has been critically acclaimed due mainly to the high complexity of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Brossé
Dirk, Knight BrosséEtat présent de la noblesse belge 2015, p. 20 (born 18 February 1960, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor and composer. He has composed over 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic works. Brossé has also composed extensively for stage, cinema, television. His score for the BBC/HBO series Parade's End (2012) was nominated for an Emmy Award. Dirk Brossé is currently music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and of the Ghent Film Festival. John Williams chose him as Principal Conductor of the Star Wars in Concert World Tour. Brossé is also professor of composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. Dirk Brossé has conducted international orchestras, both at home and abroad. Amongst them, the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Vancouver Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, BBC Concert Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Brouwer
Dirk Brouwer (; September 1, 1902 – January 31, 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer. He received his PhD in 1927 at Leiden University under Willem de Sitter and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the ''Astronomical Journal''. He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook ''Methods of Celestial Mechanics''. Awards *Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1955) *Bruce Medal (1966) Named after him *Asteroid 1746 Brouwer *The crater Brouwer on the Moon (jointly with mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer) * Dirk Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society * Dirk Brouwer Award of the American Astronautical Society Formed in 1954, the American Astronautical Society (AAS) is an independent scientific and technical group in the United States dedicated to the advancement of space science and space exploration. AAS supports NASA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bootsma
Dirk Bootsma (23 May 1936 – 5 October 2020) was a Dutch geneticist. He was a professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam from 1969 and 2002. He and his research group discovered the cause of chronic myelogenous leukemia and furthered the understanding of the nucleotide excision repair. Career Bootsma was born on 23 May 1936. He began studying biology at Utrecht University in September 1953. He conducted his first DNA research under Professor Winkler. In 1965, he earned his PhD under Jacob A. Cohen from Leiden University with a thesis titled: "De invloed van röntgenstraling op de delingscyclus van in vitro gekweekte cellen". In the late 1960s, Bootsma performed his compulsory military service at the Medical-Biological Laboratory of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) where he researched the influence of X-radiation on chromosomes in living cells. After completing his PhD, Bootsma joined the newly founded Department of Cell Biology and Genetics at Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Bolt
Dirk Bolt (24 October 1930 – 13 December 2020) was a Dutch-born architect who is best known for his post-Second World War Australian modernist architecture and his later career as an academic and consultant that applied sustainable, equitable and humane principles to town planning. His most notable buildings include the Sandy Bay Campus buildings of Christ College at the University of Tasmania and the Murray Street State Offices in Central Hobart.Calder N (1999)Significant Tasmanian architecture of the 20th century In: Australian Bureau of Statistics (1999). Tasmanian Year Book 2000 (Cat. No. 1301.6). Retrieved 18 November 2012. Professional life and education Bolt was born in Groningen on 24 October 1930. He commenced his studies in architecture at the Delft University of Technology, but moved to Australia in 1951, and finished his qualifications as an architect and town planner at Hobart Technical College.McNeill B and Ratcliff E (2006)Dirk Bolt Centre for Tasmanian Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Blocker
Dennis Dirk Blocker (born July 31, 1957) is an American actor. He earned his first regular TV role on '' Baa Baa Black Sheep'' (1976–1978), playing pilot Jerry Bragg. From 2013–2021, he starred as Detective Michael Hitchcock on the Fox/ NBC comedy series ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''. Born in Los Angeles, California, he is the son of actor Dan Blocker and Dolphia Lee Blocker (''née'' Parker). His brother is producer David Blocker. Career Blocker appeared onscreen for the first time with his father in a 1964 car commercial. He began appearing on American television in 1974, acting in an episode of '' Marcus Welby, M.D.'' at the age of 16. He has had guest roles in '' ER''; ''Little House on the Prairie''; ''The X-Files''; ''Beverly Hills, 90210''; ''Walker, Texas Ranger''; '' Night Court''; ''Murder, She Wrote''; '' M*A*S*H''; '' Doogie Howser, M.D.''; '' Matlock''; '' Quantum Leap'' and '' CHiPs''. At age 19, he was cast in the role of 1st Lt. Jerry Bragg on the military dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
