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Henriëtte Wolters-van Pee
Henriëtte is a Dutch version of the feminine given name Henrietta. The diaeresis is sometimes omitted in foreign texts. People with the name include: * Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666–1726), mother of John William Friso, Prince of Orange * Henriëtte Bosmans (1895–1952), Dutch composer * Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (1854–1929), Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist * Henriëtte Geertruida Knip (1783–1842), Dutch flower painter * Henriëtte van Lynden-Leijten (1950–2010), Dutch diplomat * Louise Henriëtte van Nassau (1627–1667), daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange * Henriëtte Gesina Numans (1877–1955), Dutch painter * Henriëtte Catharina van Oranje (1637–1708), daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange * Henriëtte d'Oultremont de Wégimont (1792–1864), second, morganatic wife of the first Dutch king, William I * Henriëtte Roland Holst (1869–1952), Dutch poet and socialist *Henriëtte Ronner-Knip Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (; 31 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta D'Oultremont
Countess Henriëtte Adriana Maria Ludovica Flora d'Oultremont de Wégimont (28 February 1792 in Maastricht–26 October 1864 at Rahe Castle in Aachen) was the second, morganatic, wife of the first Dutch king, William I. Being the morganatic wife of the King, she was never made Queen Consort. Life Henriëtte d'Oultremont was one of five children of Count Ferdinand d'Oultremont de Wégimont (1760-1799) from Liège and his wife, Johanna Susanna Hartsinck (1759-1830), daughter of Admiral Andries Hartsinck (1720-1788) and Johanna Cornelia de Bas (1721-1787). She was related to Count Charles Jean "John" d'Oultremont (1848-1917). Around 1840, King William found himself in discord with much of the Dutch population due to his refusal to implement demanded reforms. This discord was enhanced when the king, head of the strictly Protestant and royal House of Orange-Nassau, announced his intention to marry the Catholic Countess Henriëtte, who had been a lady-in-waiting to his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriëtte Wolters-van Pee
Henriëtte is a Dutch version of the feminine given name Henrietta. The diaeresis is sometimes omitted in foreign texts. People with the name include: * Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666–1726), mother of John William Friso, Prince of Orange * Henriëtte Bosmans (1895–1952), Dutch composer * Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (1854–1929), Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist * Henriëtte Geertruida Knip (1783–1842), Dutch flower painter * Henriëtte van Lynden-Leijten (1950–2010), Dutch diplomat * Louise Henriëtte van Nassau (1627–1667), daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange * Henriëtte Gesina Numans (1877–1955), Dutch painter * Henriëtte Catharina van Oranje (1637–1708), daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange * Henriëtte d'Oultremont de Wégimont (1792–1864), second, morganatic wife of the first Dutch king, William I * Henriëtte Roland Holst (1869–1952), Dutch poet and socialist *Henriëtte Ronner-Knip Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (; 31 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette Willebeek Le Mair
Henriette Willebeek LeMair (April 23, 1889 in Rotterdam – March 15, 1966) was a Dutch illustrator of children's books. Career The French illustrator Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel was an important influence on Le Mair's artistic development. When she was 15, her parents took her to visit him in Paris for advice, and she returned annually for further mentoring. As a result of his advice, she studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Art from 1909 to 1911 as well as taking private drawing lessons. She first published illustrations in 1904, and a year later collaborated with her mother on a series of three books. As an illustrator, her most productive years were between 1911 and 1917. Her images appeared on postcards and children’s china as well as in books. Le Mair worked in watercolor, a medium that showcased her delicate, detailed drawings with their muted flat color washes. She often used decorative cartouches shaped as ovals or rounded rectangles to set off her illustrations. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriëtte Weersing
Henriëtte Weersing (born 11 October 1965) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. Weersing was a leading member of the Netherlands national team that won the gold medal at the 1995 European Championship by defeating Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ... 3–0 in the final. References * *Dutch Olympic Committee 1965 births Dutch women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Groningen (province) People from Winschoten Living people Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Spain Dutch expatriate volleyball players i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette De Swart
Henriëtte Elisabeth de Swart (born 15 May 1961, in Doetinchem) is a Dutch linguist. Education and research She earned her PhD at Groningen University in 1991. She was a research fellow at Groningen University and assistant professor at Stanford University. She is currently a Professor in French linguistics and semantics at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic variation in meaning particularly in regards to tense and aspect, negation, bare nominals and indefinite noun phrases. She has also investigated the role of semantics in language evolution, and was involved in the development of bidirectional optimality theory. Honors and distinctions She has been the director of the Netherlands Graduate School of linguistics (LOT) and of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS). In 2013, she was nominated to membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette Roosenburg
Henriette Roosenburg (26 May 1916 – 20 June 1972) was a Dutch journalist and political prisoner. Her memoir '' The Walls Came Tumbling Down'' described her attempts to return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released from prison at the end of World War II. Born in the Netherlands to an upper-class family, she was a graduate student at the University of Leiden at the start of World War II and became a courier in the Dutch resistance, where she served under the code name Zip. During this time she also wrote for the Dutch newspaper ''Het Parool''. In 1944 she was caught and sentenced to death, and became a '' Night and Fog prisoner'' in a German prison at Waldheim. Start of resistance work Born in The Hague to an upper-class family, Jet, as she was called by family and friends, was a graduate student at the University of Leiden at the start of World War II. During 1941, she became involved in the Dutch resistance. She started out by helping Jewish people flee or go in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (; 31 May 1821 – 28 February 1909) was a Dutch-Belgian artist chiefly in the Romanticism, Romantic style who is best known for her still life animal paintings; especially cats. Biography She was born in Amsterdam into a family of artists and received her first lessons from her father, Joseph August Knip, who also gave lessons to her aunt (his youngest sister), Henriëtte Geertruida Knip. His father, Nicolaas (1741–1808), was an artist as well. Some sources indicate that her mother was Pauline Rifer de Courcelles, a painter of birds, who was her father's first wife but, at the time of her birth, they were apparently separated and he was living with his mistress, Cornelia van Leeuwen (1790–1848), who is also credited with being Henriëtte's mother.Brief biography @ Huygens/Resources. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriëtte Roland Holst
Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk (24 December 1869 – 21 November 1952) was a Dutch poet and Council communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She had many noted relatives. Her husband was the artist Richard Roland Holst. The poet Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), nicknamed "the Dutch Prince of Poets", was the nephew of her husband. Early life Born in Noordwijk on 24 December 1869, Roland Holst was brought up in the affluent, liberal Christianity, liberal Christian family of the notary Theodore Willem van der Schalk and Anna Ida van der Schalk-van der Hoeven. Roland Holst attended four years of boarding school in Velp, Gelderland, Velp and studied French in Liège, Liege. Roland Holst soon came to develop a talent as a poet. She married the artist Richard Roland Holst in 1896 and befriended the poet Herman Gorter, who prompted her to read ''Das Kapital'' by Karl Marx. Around this time she became politics, politically active and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriëtte Catharina Van Oranje
Henriette Catherine of Nassau (Dutch: ''Henriëtte Catharina,'' German: ''Henriette Katharina''; 10 February 1637 – 5 November 1708) was princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau by marriage to John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and regent of Anhalt-Dessau from 1693 to 1698 during the minority (and then the absence) of her son Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Life Henriette was born in The Hague as a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, being the seventh of nine children born to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels. Some of her siblings died in childhood. Henriette and four other siblings lived to adulthood, her surviving siblings were: William II, Prince of Orange, Luise Henriette of Nassau, Albertine Agnes of Nassau and Maria of Nassau. Princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau The Thirty Years War had left Germany in ruins but the Netherlands under the reign of Henriette's father, Frederick Henry, had made great progress since the assassination of Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta (given Name)
Henrietta is a feminine given name, derived from the male name Henry (given name), Henry. The name is an English language, English version of the French language, French Henriette (other), Henriette, a female form of Henri. A short version of the name is Harriet (name), Harriet, which was considered the "spoken form" of Henrietta, much as Harry (given name), Harry was considered the "spoken form" of Henry (given name), Henry in Middle Ages, medieval England. All these names are derived from Henrik, which is ultimately derived from the Germanic languages, Germanic name ''Heimiric'', from the word elements ''heim'', or "home" and ''ric'', meaning "power, ruler." The male name Henry was first used in the Kingdom of England by Normans. Henrietta Maria of France, baptized as Henrietta Maria, in Latin, but called in French ''Henriette-Marie'', the queen consort of Charles I of England, first inspired wide use of the name in England in the 17th century. In 2006, an authority on gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriëtte Gesina Numans
Henriëtte Gesina Numans (15 August 1877 – 11 May 1955) was a Dutch painter. Numans was born in Sintang Regency. She was trained in The Hague at the drawing school there in 1899–1900. She married the painter Waalko Jans Dingemans and they lived first in the Hague, in Nieuwkoop 1904–1911, and later in Haarlem, where he died in 1925. Henriette taught drawing at a school for girls and was a member of Kunst Zij Ons Doel there and Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.Henriëtte Dingemans-Numans in the RKD Numans' work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''Onze Kunst van Heden'' (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Numans died in Zeist. References External linksHenriette Gisma Dingeman-Numans (1877–1955)on ArtnetHenrietta Gesina Dingemans-Numans (Dutch, 1877–1955)on Artnet Artnet.com is an art market website. It is operated by Artnet Worldwide Corporation, which has headquarters in New York City. It is owned by Artnet AG, a German publicly-traded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
