The Eerste Nederlandse Systematisch Ingerichte Encyclopaedie (abbr. E.N.S.I.E., "First Dutch Systematically Arranged Encyclopaedia"), is a Dutch language encyclopaedia at first in ten volumes of which the first volume appeared in 1946 and the tenth, the alphabetical lexicon, in 1952. [1] In 1959 and 1960 a Supplement and a revised Lexicon were added. It was published in Amsterdam under the redaction of Prof. Dr Hendrik Pos , Prof. Dr J. M. Romein, Prof. Dr H. A. Kramers, Dr Oene Noordenbos and others.
The volumes I through IX deal with various subjects in their context. The full size of the ten volumes measures around half a meter.
Willebrord Snellius was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, AKASnell. His name is usually associated with the law of refraction of light known as Snell's law.
Jan Marius Romein was a Dutch historian, journalist, literary scholar and professor of history at the University of Amsterdam. A Marxist and a student of Huizinga, Romein is remembered for his popularizing books of Dutch national history, jointly authored with his wife Annie Romein-Verschoor. His work has been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Indonesian and Japanese.
Dirk Hendrik Theodoor Vollenhoven was a Dutch philosopher.
Hendrik Jan van Eikema Hommes was a noted Dutch legal scholar and successor to Herman Dooyeweerd in the post of philosopher and judicial scholar at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Jan Woltjer was a professor of Classical languages and literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop was a seventeenth-century Dutch cartographer, mathematician, surveyor, astronomer, shoemaker and Mennonite teacher.
Wouter Deelen was a Dutch Anabaptist, Greek and Hebrew scholar, for a time librarian of Henry VIII, and then preacher at the Dutch church in London.
Jacobus Ruurd "Jaap" Bruijn, was a Dutch maritime historian. He was professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden from 1979 until his retirement in 2003. During his 41-year teaching career as The Netherlands' only university professor of maritime history, he guided the doctoral theses of at least 49 graduate students.
George François Cornelis Griss, usually cited as G. F. C. Griss, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, who was occupied with Hegelian idealism and Brouwers intuitionism and stated a negationless mathematics.
The Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad was one of the leading and largest daily newspapers in the Dutch East Indies. It was based in Batavia on Java, but read throughout the archipelago. It was founded by the famous Dutch newspaperman and author P. A. Daum in 1885 and existed to 1957.
Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam was a short Dutch silent film by M.H. Laddé from 1896 about the then recently opened swimming pool at the Heiligeweg in Amsterdam, which was the first indoor pool in the Netherlands. The film is lost.
Frederik Willem Grosheide was a Dutch New Testament scholar. He served as Professor of New Testament at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Hugo Pos was a Surinamese judge, writer, and poet.
Hendrik Frans Karel van Nierop is a historian of early-modern Holland and professor emeritus of the University of Amsterdam.
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. Founded in 1808, members are appointed for life by co-optation.
Jan Hendrik Maronier was a Dutch pastor and writer.
Hendrik Klaas Aldert"Henk"Visser was a Dutch pediatrician. He was professor of pediatrics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus MC between 1967 and 1995.
Jan Hendrik Jozef Hoeijmakers is a Dutch molecular biologist, biochemist, and molecular geneticist.
Jozef Maria August Antoon (Jef) Van den Eynde was a prominent figure from Leuven's student life, an activist and member of the Council of Flanders during the First World War.