Goor is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Enschede. Goor received city rights in 1263.
Jhr. Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff was a Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and a Dutch minister for foreign affairs.
Floris Adriaan van Hall, Baron of Hall was a nobleman and statesman from the Netherlands in the 19th century. He played an important role as representative of the Amsterdam trade and banking sector, and later as politician. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1853 to 1856, and again from 1860 to 1861.
Johannes Aleidis (Johan) Ringers was a Dutch hydraulic engineer and politician. He served as the director-general of Rijkswaterstaat and later as the director of Dutch East Indies Railways. During World War II, Ringers was appointed as the government commissioner for reconstruction, but was later interned by German forces.
The Biografisch Portaal is an initiative based at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam, with the aim of making biographical texts of the Netherlands more accessible.
Maria van Schooten (1555–1573) was a Dutch heroine from the Eighty Years' War. She died from the injuries she received after having participated in the defense during the Siege of Haarlem and was given a public funeral with full military honors. She is believed to have been one of the women led by Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, a legendary heroine who helped defend Haarlem against the Spanish invaders.
The Dutch Israelite Religious Community of The Hague is the Ashkenazi Orthodox Jewish community in The Hague and is a member of the Nederlands-Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap (NIK).
Johan Carl Krauss, was a German-born professor of medicine at Leiden, botanist, taxonomist and author of botanical books. He was the son of Christophorus Adam Krauss, a physician at the court of Prince Hohenlohe, and Dorothea Zolner. He is best known for his publication "Afbeeldingen der fraaiste, meest uitheemsche boomen en heesters".
Cornelis Bicker van Swieten, heer (lord) van Swieten, was an Amsterdam regent of the Dutch Republic during the Golden Age. He traded in sugar, was a governor of the Dutch West India Company and director of the Wisselbank. He was schepen, hoogheemraad of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland and a counsellor of the States of Holland and West Friesland at The Hague.
Jhr. Johannes Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch Rijksarchivaris, historian, and politician. He is best known for his encyclopedic Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen, a naval history of the Netherlands that was based on the Dutch naval archives, a large part of which were destroyed in a fire in the archives of the Dutch Department of the Navy in 1844. By default therefore this history had to come in the place of the lost primary documents.
David Meese was a Dutch botanist notable for his authorship of the Flora frisica in 1760.
Jacob Leonard de Bruyn Kops, was a Dutch liberal economist, politician, and professor in political economy and administrative law at the Delft University of Technology.
Addeke Hendrik Boerma was a Dutch civil servant who served as the first Executive Director of the World Food Programme from 1962 to 1967 and as the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization from 1967 until December 1975.
Paul Hendrik "Henk" Walaardt Sacré was a Dutch military engineer and aviator born in Doetinchem.
Martinus Stuart was a Dutch pastor and historian. He was appointed by King William I as historian of the kingdom.
Jacobus Maria "Jacques" Aarden was a Dutch politician.
Joseph van den Leene, lord of Lodinsart, Castillon, and Huyseghem, was the First King of Arms of the Spanish Netherlands, and the Duchy of Burgundy, this office was called Toison d'Or. On 13 June 1678, he was admitted to the House of Serhuyghs of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels.
Jan Bastiaans was a Dutch neurologist and psychiatrist, known for his controversial Bastiaans method of treatment of traumatised survivors of The Holocaust suffering from survivor guilt with LSD.
Hendrik Temminck was a Dutch States Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Suriname from 1722 to 1727.
Wendela Bicker was the wife of Johan de Witt. She was one of the richest young female commoners of her time and she married one of the most influential republican politicians in the Netherlands. She was in the public eye during her lifetime and entered history books thereafter. This is facilitated by the letters and the housekeeping books she left behind. The narrative about her life reflects how the role of women in the Netherlands in the 17th century was and is understood.
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