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Koning Filip Van België
Koning is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for "king" and thus may refer to the King of the Netherlands or the King of Belgium. Old spelling variations include Coning, Coninck, Köning, Koninck, Koningh, Konink, and Kooning. "Koning" and "De Koning" are quite common Dutch surnames and may refer to: * Ans Koning (1923–2006), Dutch javelin thrower *Arthur Koning (1944–2015), Dutch rower * Christina Koning (b. 1954), British novelist and short story writer * Elisabeth Koning (1917–1975), Dutch sprinter * Elisabeth Johanna Koning (1816–1887), Dutch painter * Gerry Koning (b. 1980), Dutch footballer *Hans Koning (1921–2007), Dutch writer * Henk Koning (1933–2016), Dutch tax official and politician *Henry Koning (b. 1960), Dutch sailor * Jacob Koning, alternate spelling of Jacob Koninck (c.1615–c.1695), Dutch painter (brother of Philips) * Jean Koning (b. 1976), Dutch actor, director, musician and author * Karen Koning AbuZayd (b. 1941), American diplomat *Marcel Koning (b ... [...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] |
Henry Koning
Henry Arthur Koning (born 29 June 1960 in Zaandam) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Pusan. With Hans Schelling as crew, Koning took the 15th place in the Flying Dutchman. Koning represented Bonaire during the 2008 Vintage Yachting Games in Medemblik in the Flying Dutchman with Rob Taal as crew. The team made 4th place. In the 2012 Koning and Taal returned to the Vintage Yachting Games in Lake Como also for Bonaire. They finished again 4th. Professional life Koning works as organizational consultant for the community of Purmerend Purmerend () is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The city is surrounded by polders, such as the Purmer, Beemster and the Wormer. Purmerend's population grew relatively slowly until the 1960s .... Sources * * * * * * 1960 births Living people Dutch male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for the Netherlands Sailors at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coen De Koning (sailor)
Coen de Koning (born 5 April 1983) is a Dutch competitive sailor. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ..., in the mixed Nacra 17. References External links * 1983 births Living people Dutch male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for the Netherlands Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17 Sportspeople from Hoorn Sailors (sport) from North Holland {{Netherlands-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coen De Koning
Coen de Koning (30 March 1879 – 29 July 1954) was a speed skater and cyclist. He started his sports career as a cyclist, but switched to speed skating and became the second Dutch speed skater to win a world title, in 1905. He finished second in 500 m, and won the 1500, 5000 and 10,000 m events. De Koning won the national all-around title in 1903, 1905 and 1912, and set national records in the 500 m and 10,000 m in 1905; these records stood until 1926 and 1929. De Koning also set a world record in one-hour skating, at 32,370 m in 1906, and won the Elfstedentocht in 1912 and 1917. Family De Koning came from a speed skating family. His brother Jacobus "Sjaak" Petrus de Koning won the national all-around title in 1914. His son Jacobus Petrus Coenradus de Koning (born 1907) competed at the 1942 national championships, and his cousin Aad de Koning took part in the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (; ; ; ) and commonly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill DeKoning
William Callahan DeKoning (December 19, 1918 – July 26, 1979) was a Major League Baseball catcher who played in three games for the New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The ... in . External links Major League Baseball catchers New York Giants (baseball) players Americus Pioneers players Dayton Wings players Jacksonville Tars players Johnstown Johnnies players Richmond Colts players Trenton Packers players Baseball players from Brooklyn 1918 births 1979 deaths 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-catcher-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Koning
Victor Koning (4 April 1842 – 1 October 1894) was a French playwright and librettist. Biography He authored theatre plays, mostly comedies and comédie en vaudeville and successful operettas libretti including ''La Fille de madame Angot'' (1872) by Charles Lecocq which he wrote in collaboration with Clairville and Paul Siraudin. Victor Koning was also managing director of the Théâtre de la Gaîté from 1 April 1868 to 13 March 1869 and of the Théâtre de la Renaissance from 1875 to 1882. On 19 June 1884 in Marylebone (England), he married the actress Jane Hading, who he helped make her debut at the Théâtre du Gymnase the previous year in '' Le Maître de forges'', a huge theatrical and literary success. They divorced in 1888. On 27 May 1893, he married a second time with the actress Raphaële Sisos The writers Jules Clarétie and Auguste Vacquerie, Eugène Bertrand, director of the Opéra de Paris, and Arthur Meyer, director of '' Le Gaulois'', were witn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Koning
Theo Koning (born 1950 in the Netherlands) was a Western Australian painter, sculptor, printmaker and art teacher, who for a time exhibited with the Galerie Dusseldorf in Perth. Koning immigrated to Western Australia in 1953 at the age of three, and graduated in fine art at the Claremont Technical School in 1973, in the same year becoming one of the founding members of the Western Australian Sculptors' Association. Koning's works have gained extensive representation in art galleries throughout Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th .... Koning died in 2022 at age 71. Notes 1950 births Living people Australian painters 20th-century Australian sculptors Dutch emigrants to Australia {{Oceania-sculp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philips Koninck
Philips Koninck (5 November 1619 – 4 October 1688), also spelled Philip de Koninck, was a Dutch landscape painter and younger brother of Jacob Koninck. Koninck was the son of the jeweler Aert Koninck. He was married twice; in 1641 with Cornelia, a sister of Abraham Furnerius, living in Rotterdam, and in 1657 with Margaretha van Rhijn from Amsterdam. Philip studied painting under his brother Jacob in Rotterdam. After his second marriage he moved to Amsterdam. According to the Dutch writer on art Arnold Houbraken, Koninck completed his training in Rembrandt’s studio in Amsterdam. In the late 1640s, Koninck, began to paint panoramas, his canvases divided in half, horizontally, between equal measures of earth and sky. Koninck was evidently much affected by Rembrandt etchings like 'The Goldweigher's Field', which looked across a broad sweep of country layered with bands of shade and light. Also the style of Hercules Segers is to be detected in his work. Impressionable and sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Koning
Peter Koning (born 3 December 1990) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team . He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. Major results ;2007 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2012 : 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships : 5th Ronde van Midden-Nederland : 7th Overall Olympia's Tour ;2013 : 2nd Overall Olympia's Tour : 5th Rabo Baronie Breda Classic ;2014 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Czech Cycling Tour : 4th Overall Okolo Slovenska ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 5th Duo Normand (with Brian van Goethem) ;2016 : 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé : 1st Stage 3 Tour de San Luis Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which ... : 4th Overall Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan) ::1st Stage 2 ;2018 : 1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Koning
Michel Koning (born 1 May 1984) is a Dutch tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 229 achieved on 15 June 2009, and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 320 achieved on 18 August 2008. As a junior, Koning reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 14, which he achieved on 8 July 2002 and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2, achieved on 9 September 2002. He won the 2002 US Open boys' doubles title alongside compatriot Bas van der Valk where they defeated Brian Baker and Chris Guccione in straight sets ''6–4, 6–4''. Koning made his ATP Tour debut at the 2002 Ordina Open where he was given a wild card entry into the doubles draw alongside Bas van der Valk. They pulled off an upset victory by defeating fourth seeds Michael Hill and Daniel Vacek in the first round ''6–7(8–10), 6–2, 7–6(7–5)''. They were defeated in the second round by Andrei Olhovskiy and David Adams in straight sets ''3–6, 5–7''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Wittop Koning
Martine Diederik Wittop Koning (10 January 1870 – 29 July 1963) was a Dutch nutritionist, vegetarianism activist and cookbook writer. She was a pioneer of domestic science in the Netherlands. Biography Martine Konging was born in Goch to Dirk Arnold Wittop Koning (1845–1909) and Martina Susanna Everdina de Moulin (1846–1928). She moved to Amsterdam with her parents and four younger brothers at age 14. In 1891, she attended Amsterdamsche Huishoudschool, a domestic science school on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht and passed her cooking school teacher exam in 1893. In 1895, she moved with the school to its new building on the Zandpad opposite Vondelpark where she was a resident cooking and nutrition teacher. She authored brochures about domestic science and also gave cooking lectures. In 1900, she became secretary of the Association of Teachers in Domestic Education. Konging later joined a new cooking school on Gabriël Metsustraat in 1906. She worked as a teacher for the school u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Koning
Marcel Koning (born 14 January 1975) is a Dutch former footballer, who played as a midfielder, and current manager of RKVV Westlandia. Playing career Koning played for the Dutch professional football clubs ADO Den Haag, NEC and NAC Breda between 1992 and 2005. Managerial career In 2005, he joined HBS where he also managed the U19 and U19 teams of the club.Koning, Marcel - De Haagse Voetbalhistorie dehaagsevoetbalhistorie.nl In 2009, he joined as a youth coach. He was the manager of the U19 team in the 2011/12 season while he took charge of the U16's in the following season. In 2013, he became manager of |
