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Lodewyk
Lodewyk is a Dutch and Afrikaans given name, equivalent to Louis or Lewis in English. While in modern Dutch the name is spelled Lodewijk, Afrikaans retains ''Lodewyk''. Notable people with the name include: * Lodewyk van Bercken (fl. 1456), Flemish jeweler and diamond cutter who invented the scaif * Lodewyk de Deyster (1656–1711), Flemish artist and maker of musical instruments * William Lodewyk Crowther (1817–1885), Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania 1878–79 * Edward Lodewyk Crowther (1843–1931), Australian politician, son of William * Christian Lodewyk Stals (born 1935), South African businessperson * François Philippus Lodewyk Steyn (born 1987), South African rugby player See also * Lode (name) * Lodewijk * Ludowyk * Ludwig (given name) Ludwig is a German name, deriving from Old High German ''Hludwīg'', also spelled ''Hluotwīg''. Etymologically, the name can be traced back to the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name ''*hlūdawiganaz'', which is composed of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lodewyk Crowther
William Lodewyk Crowther FRCS (15 April 1817 − 12 April 1885) was a Tasmanian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 20 December 1878 to 29 October 1879. His careers in medicine, politics, and business were overshadowed in modern times by his alleged role in the unsanctioned exhumation and decapitation of William Lanne's body. Lanne was believed to be the last "full-blooded" Aboriginal Tasmanian male and after the exhumation, his skull was sent by Crowther to the Royal College of Surgeons in London for preservation. Early life Crowther was born on 15 April 1817 in Haarlem, Netherlands. He was the son of Sarah () and William Crowther, who was later a long-time resident surgeon of Hobart. The Crowthers moved to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1824. Crowther was educated at Richard B. Claiborne's Grammar School in Longford, Tasmania in 1828. On his 120-mile (193 km) walks to and from school in holidays, Crowther developed a strong interest in natural history. Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodewyk Van Bercken
Lodewyk van Bercken (also known in French as ''Louis de Berquem'') was a mid- to late-15th century Flemish Region, Flemish jeweller and diamond cutter, renowned in the industry for inventing the scaif. The device revolutionized the diamond cutting industry and contributed to increased popularity of diamonds. About Van Bercken was born in Bruges. He is credited with inventing the scaif, a polishing wheel infused with a mixture of olive oil and diamond dust. With the scaif, it became possible to polish all the facets of the diamond symmetrically at angles that best reflected the light. Charles the Bold Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy became the Patronage, patron of van Bercken and in the 1470s commissioned him to cut a 137 carat (27.4 g) stone that later became known as the Florentine Diamond. Van Bercken experimented with three diamonds belonging to Charles the Bold. One stone was the Beau Sancy, another became the property of Pope Sixtus V, and the third was given by Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Lodewyk Stals
Christian Lodewyk Stals, better known as Chris Stals (born 13 March 1934) was the seventh Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, serving from 8 August 1989 to 7 August 1999. He succeeded Gerhard de Kock who had died in office. He obtained a BComm degree from the University of Pretoria During his term, South Africa's constitutional arrangements were changed again. The Second Republic was superseded by the Third Republic. It was also during his term that South Africa returned to the Commonwealth of Nations. It was President Nelson Mandela who kept Stals in office. Stals was succeeded by Tito Mboweni Tito Titus Mboweni (16 March 1959 – 12 October 2024) was a South African politician who served as Minister of Finance of South Africa in the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa from 2018 to 2021. Mboweni was the eighth Governor of the So .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lodewyk Crowther
Edward Lodewyk Crowther (3 October 1843 – 9 August 1931) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hobart. His father, William Crowther, was Premier of Tasmania from 1878 to 1879. In 1878 Edward Crowther was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Queenborough. He was one of two members for Kingborough from 1886 to 1897 when the seat of Queenborough was incorporated into it; Queenborough was restored in 1897 and Crowther remained its member. With the introduction of proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ... in 1909 he was elected to the seat of Denison as an Anti-Socialist. He retired in 1912 and died in 1931 in Oyster Cove. References 1843 births 1931 deaths Free Trade Party politicians Members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis (given Name)
Louis is the French language, French form of the Old Frankish language, Old Frankish given name Clovis (given name), Chlodowig and one of two English language, English forms, the other being Lewis (given name), Lewis (). Etymology The name Louis (through the intermediate form Clovis (given name), Clovis) derives from the Frankish name ᚺᛚᛟᛞᛟᚹᛁᚷ (in runic alphabet) or *''Hlōdowik'' or *''Hlōdowig'' (in Latin alphabet). Traditionally, this name is considered to be composed of two elements, deriving from both Proto-Germanic ''*hlūdaz'' ("loud, famous") and ''*wiganą'' ("to battle, to fight") respectively, resulting in the traditional practice of translating Clovis' name as meaning "famous warrior" or "famous in battle". However, scholars have pointed out that Gregory of Tours consequently transcribes the names of various Merovingian royal names containing the first element as ''chlodo-''. The use of a close-mid back protruded vowel (o), rather than the expected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodewijk
Lodewijk () is the Dutch name for Louis. In specific it may refer to: Given name Literature * Lodewijk Hartog van Banda (1916–2006), Dutch comic strip writer * Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, (1912–1979) Flemish writer * Lodewijk van Deyssel, (1864–1952) late 19th century Dutch literary critic and a leading member of the Tachtigers * Lodewijk Elzevir (1540s–1617), 16th century printer and publisher of books and bibles * Lodewijk de Koninck (1838–1924), Flemish writer Music * Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, (1955–2020) American guitarist * Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (better known as Lou Bandy), Dutch singer and cabaret conferencier * Lodewijk Fluttert (born 1991) Dutch DJ and producer * Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868–1952), Belgian classical composer * Lodewijk Parisius (1911–1963), Dutch/Surinamese tenor saxophonist Sports * Jan-Lodewijk de Vries, (born 1972) Dutch water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodewyk De Deyster
Lodewijk de DeysterName variations: Louis de Deyster, Lodewyk de Deyster, Lodewijk Dedeyster (c. 1656 – 18 December 1711) was a Flemish draftsman, etcher, engraver, musical instrument maker and instrument maker.Louis de Deyster at the He painted biblical subjects and portraits. His Baroque paintings show a clear influence of Italian masters such as Giordano, Maratta, |
Ludowyk
Ludowyk is a Sri Lankan Burgher surname, and is also used as a given name. People with the name include: Surname * Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk (1896–1987), Hungarian-born psychotherapist who married E.F.C. Ludowyk * Evelyn Frederick Charles Ludowyk (1906–1985), Shakespearean scholar, playwright, and academic * Frederick Ludowyk (1934–2012), Sri Lankan-born Australian playwright, lexicographer, and editor of ''Ozwords'' magazine * Geoff Ludowyk, member of The Wayfarers, an Australian folk group * Natasha Ludowyk, co-founder and editor of defunct '' Is Not Magazine'' (2005–2008) * Tristan Ludowyk, former member of The Bombay Royale, an 11-piece Australian band, and founder member of The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, an Australian Afrobeats band Given name *Ludowyk Smits (1635–1707), Dutch Golden Age painter See also * Lodewijk * Lodewyk * Ludwig (given name) Ludwig is a German name, deriving from Old High German ''Hludwīg'', also spelled ''Hluotwīg''. Etymologicall ... [...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] |
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Patagonian Afrikaans, Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutch language, Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the free Burghers, predominantly Dutch settlers and slavery in South Africa#Dutch rule, enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages including German language, German, Malay language, Malay and Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic language, analytic Morphology (linguistics), morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are Will (law), wills Attestation clause, attested by John Jones in 1204 and 1229, as well as a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)", even though Jones was born before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Philippus Lodewyk Steyn
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher * François Beauchemin (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks * François Blanc (1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos * François Bonlieu (1937–1973), French alpine skier * François Cevert (1944–1973), French racing driver * François Chau (born 1959), Cambodian American actor * François Clemmons (born 1945), American singer and actor * François Corbier (1944–2018), French television presenter and songwriter * François Coty (1874–1934), French perfumer * François Coulomb the Elder (1654–1717), French naval architect * François Coulomb the Younger (1691–1751), French naval architect * François Couperin (1668–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
