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Samuel van Hoogstraten
Samuel van Hoogstraten , 1627-78, Dutch portrait painter and etcher, studied with his father, Dirk van Hoogstraten (1596-1640), and with Rembrandt. His best works, such as The Old Jew (Vienna), reflect the influence of Rembrandt. He was director of the Academy in Dordrecht and author of a treatise... Read more
Nicolaes Maes
Nicolaes Maes , 1632-93, Dutch genre and portrait painter. His earlier genre pictures bear, in their manner and coloring, a certain resemblance to those of his master, Rembrandt. In Dordrecht (1653-73) he painted chiefly domestic genre on a smaller scale. His later works, mostly portraits, show the ... Read more
South Holland
South Holland Dutch Zuidholland, province (1994 pop. 3,313,200), c.1,085 sq mi (2,810 sq km), W Netherlands, bounded by the North Sea in the west. The Hague is the capital; other cities include Rotterdam , Dordrecht , Leiden , Delft , Schiedam , and Gouda . A fertile lowland, protected by... Read more
Cuyp
Cuyp or Kuyp , family of Dutch painters of Dordrecht. Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp, 1594-c.1651, pupil of Abraham Bloemaert, was a portrait and landscape painter. His stepbrother and pupil, Benjamin Cuyp, 1616-52, painted figure compositions and peasant scenes in the style of Rembrandt. Aelbert C... Read more
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen , 1596-1656, Dutch landscape painter. He studied at Leiden and Haarlem. In 1631 he settled at The Hague. His typically Dutch landscapes of harbors, canals, riverbanks, and winter scenes with skaters and sleighs are naturalistically painted in a grayish-green tonality. He wa... Read more
Bernard Mandeville
Bernard Mandeville , 1670-1733, English author, b. Dordrecht, Holland. A physician, he went to London in 1692 ostensibly to learn the language, but eventually settled there permanently, practicing medicine and writing on ethical subjects. His most important work, The Fable of the Bees (1714, enl. ... Read more
Philip van Marnix
Philip van Marnix , 1540-98, Flemish patriot, lord of Sainte-Aldegonde. He became a Calvinist in his youth and was the chief author of the Compromise of Breda (1566; see Gueux ). A leader in the Dutch and Flemish struggle for independence from Spain, he actively supported William the Silent. He wro... Read more
Merchant Adventurers
Merchant Adventurers name given originally to all merchants in England who engaged in export trade, but later applied to loosely organized groups of merchants in the major ports concerned with exporting cloth to the Netherlands. They were incorporated as a trading company in 1407. Originally the co... Read more
Mennonites
Mennonites , descendants of the Dutch and Swiss evangelical Anabaptists of the 16th cent. Beliefs and Membership While each congregation is at liberty to decide independently on its form of worship and other matters, Mennonites generally agree on certain points—baptism of believers o... Read more
Meuse
Meuse , Du. Maas, river, c.560 mi (900 km) long, rising in the Langres Plateau, NE France and flowing N past Sedan (the head of navigation) and Charleville-Mézières into S Belgium. It is joined by the Sambre River at Namur. From Namur the Meuse winds eastward skirting the Ardennes, p... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Dordrecht"

Dordrecht
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Dordrecht or Dort , city (1994 pop. 113,394...Founded in the early 11th cent., Dordrecht was the scene (1572) of the meeting...proclaimed William the Silent stadtholder. Dordrecht has a 14th-century Gothic church...
Olive Schreiner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...year-old Schreiner had found an informal position as a governess for a family in Dordrecht, a village in South Africa's Eastern Cape. While working in Dordrecht, Schreiner experienced her first love affair — a brief dalliance with...
Johan de Witt
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the election of William III in 1672. De Witt was born at Dordrecht on Sept. 24, 1625, into a family of prosperous merchants...named pensionary (chief legal and political officer) of Dordrecht in December 1650, and as such he was its principal deputy...
Witt, Johan and Cornelis de (Johan 1625–1672; Cornelis 1623–1672)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...opponents of the House of Orange from 1653 to 1672, were born in Dordrecht, a city in the south of the province of Holland, where their...a foremost member of the administration of his hometown of Dordrecht and married the daughter of an important aristocrat from Rotterdam...
Mennonites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in German, and the Conservative Amish, who abide by the Dordrecht Confession of Faith but hold services in English as well as...and the Netherlands, where it became influential. The Dordrecht Confession of Faith, embodying the distinctive features of...
Aelbert Cuyp
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He painted Dutch rural life in its full variety. Born in Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp was probably first taught by his father, the...paintings Cuyp made of activities on the rivers that made Dordrecht a busy port in his day give evidence of his scrutiny of subtle...
Old Red Sandstone
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Devonian System, Calgary, Canada. Ziegler, P. A. (1989) The evolution of Laurussia: a study in Late Palaeozoic plate tectonics . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Pierre Bayle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Crisis: Man and World in Eighteenth Century Thought (1959). Additional Sources Labrousse, Elisabeth, Pierre Bayle, Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff: Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985. □
Indeterminism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...to be arrived at. See also ; Bibliography barrow, john d. the universe that discovered itself. oxford: oxford university press, 2000. earman, john. primer on determinism. dordrecht, netherlands: kluwer, 1978. john d. barrow
Dort, Synod of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World DORT, SYNOD OF DORT, SYNOD OF. Convened in 1618 in the Dutch city of Dordrecht, the Synod of Dort met to settle the Arminian, or Remonstrant, controversy within the Reformed Church of the Netherlands. This...

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Cuyp
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Cuyp. The name of a family of Dutch painters of Dordrecht, of which three members gained distinction. Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp ( b Dordrecht, Dec. 1594; d Dordrecht, 1652) was the son of a glass painter and according to Houbraken...
Hoogstraten, Samuel van
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Hoogstraten, Samuel van ( b Dordrecht, 2 Aug. 1627; d Dordrecht, 19 Oct. 1678). Dutch painter, printmaker, and...worked in Amsterdam and The Hague as well as his native Dordrecht, and was a man of many parts. He was an etcher...
Beeckman, Isaac
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Netherlands, 10 December 1588; d . Dordrecht, Netherlands, 19 May 1637) physics...appointed rector of the Latin school at Dordrecht, which under his direction grew to 600...greatest French philosophers went to Dordrecht to see him — Descartes made...
Gelder, Aert de
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Gelder, Aert de ( b Dordrecht, 26 Oct. 1645; d Dordrecht, 27 Aug. 1727). Dutch painter, active mainly in Dordrecht. After studying there with Hoogstraten , he became one of Rembrandt's last pupils in Amsterdam. He was not only one of...
Maes, Nicolaes
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Maes, Nicolaes ( b Dordrecht, Jan. 1634; bur . Amsterdam, 24 Dec...until 1653, when he returned to his native Dordrecht. In his early years he concentrated on...National Gallery, London, and the museum at Dordrecht.
Schalken, Godfried
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Schalken, Godfried ( b Made, nr. Dordrecht, 1643; d The Hague, 13 or 16 Nov. 1706). Dutch painter...and anecdotal subjects and of portraits, active mainly in Dordrecht. He was taught there by Hoogstraten and in Leiden by Dou...
Scheffer, Ary
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Scheffer, Ary ( b Dordrecht, 10 Feb. 1795; d Argenteuil, 15 June 1858). Dutch-born painter and lithographer who...versions). He also painted many portraits. His work is well represented in the museum at Dordrecht.
Schouman, Aert
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Schouman, Aert ( b Dordrecht, 4 Mar. 1710; d The Hague, 7 May 1792). Dutch painter, printmaker...reckoned among the best of the 18th century. He worked mainly in Dordrecht and The Hague, but he made several visits abroad, including two...
Houbraken, Arnold
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Houbraken, Arnold ( b Dordrecht, 28 Mar. 1660; d Amsterdam, 14 Oct. 1719). Dutch painter and writer on art. His paintings are now forgotten, but he is...
Bol, Ferdinand
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Bol, Ferdinand ( bapt . Dordrecht, 24 June 1616; bur . Amsterdam, 24 July 1680). Dutch painter and etcher, active mainly in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Rembrandt...

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BACH-ORGEL GROTE KERK DORDRECHT
Magazine article from: The American Organist; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; BACH-ORGEL GROTE KERK DORDRECHT, ed. Peter van Dijk. Dordrecht: Stichting Bachorgel Grate Kerk Dordrecht, 2007. 176 pp., ill. ISBN 978-90-90222-10-3. euro49.90 (available from the publisher at Nijenstein 19, 3328 ZJ Dordrecht...
First Exhibition on Calvin in Dordrecht.
PR Newswire Europe; 5/7/2009; 700+ words ; DORDRECHT, The Netherlands, May 7 /PRNewswire...amp; Us) exhibition can be visited in Dordrecht from 8th May and was officially opened...psalm book (the Genevan Psalter). Dordrecht and Calvin This year, Calvin's 500th...
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Newspaper article from: EuropeMedia; 8/1/2002; 683 words ; ...http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ The Dutch city of Dordrecht has decided to sell its electronic services system which it...interest in purchasing the system. As such the authorities in Dordrecht have decided to the WIS to one party which act as a distributor...
DuPont Dordrecht hosts open house.
M2 Presswire; 11/4/2004; 387 words ; ...PRESSWIRE-4 November 2004-DUPONT: DuPont Dordrecht hosts open house(C)1994-2004 M2...LTD RDATE:11042004 The DuPont site in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, recently opened its...demonstrations. DuPont established the Dordrecht site 45 years ago. The site currently...
Mennonite Confession of Faith. Adopted April 21st, 1632, at Dordrecht, the Netherlands ...(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Faith. Adopted April 21st, 1632, at Dordrecht, The Netherlands.... Lancaster...The Confession of Faith, drawn up at Dordrecht in 1632 to bring peace to a number of...more complex confessions of faith, the Dordrecht Confession was often the basis for revisions...
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Magazine article from: International Railway Journal; 9/1/2008; 375 words ; Dutch infrastructure manager Prorail is to upgrade the Dordrecht--Geldermalsen line at a cost of 45 million [euro]. Two passing loops will be built to allow regional operator Arriva to increase...
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Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Separation and the Sword in Anabaptist Persuasion: Radical Confessional Rhetoric from Schleitheim to Dordrecht. By Gerald Biesecker-Mast. The C. Henry Smith Series 6. Telford, Pa.: Cascadia, 2006. 311 pp. $22.95 paper. From...
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Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 7/11/2003; 700+ words ; ...Byline: Hayd Murakami El Museo de Dordrecht presta sus mejores obras. La exposicin 'El Siglo de Oro Holands en Dordrecht' presenta 45 pinturas, 48 grabados...estrella de la ciudad holandesa de Dordrecht: 45 de las mejores piezas de su...