Hilversum is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the heart of the Gooi, it is the largest urban centre in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes and smaller towns. Hilversum is part of the Randstad, one of the largest conurbations in Europe, and the Amsterdam metropolitan area; it is about 22 km southeast of Amsterdam's city centre and about 15 km north of Utrecht.
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn, was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List in 2002.
Johan Georg "Jan" Nagel is a Dutch politician who was a member of the Labour Party, and later formed his own parties. He is currently in the Pensioners' Party 50PLUS.
Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian writer. He was head of a study centre at University College Ghent and affiliated researcher of the Ghent University. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2002 for the novel Als op de eerste dag.
The Marnix, het Rotterdamse Gymnasium is a school located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The school is named after Philips of Marnix, lord of Saint-Aldegonde. It teaches secondary education in the Netherlands and prepares students for a tertiary education at Dutch universities.
Michiel Riedijk is a Dutch architect and professor at the Technical University Delft. He is co-founder of the architecture office Neutelings Riedijk Architects in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Camerata Trajectina is a Dutch early music ensemble.
Jan van Noordt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Marten Meile Gerrit "Mart" Bax is a Dutch emeritus endowed professor in political anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After his retirement, he came into prominence to the wider public in the Netherlands in 2012 due to suspicions of scientific misconduct. In September 2013, these suspicions were confirmed in an official report.
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein is a professor of folkloristics and ethnology at the University of Iceland. He received his MA in folklore in 1999 and his Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with Alan Dundes and John Lindow. He completed the BA degree in folkloristics and ethnology at the University of Iceland in 1995 under the guidance of professor Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Gothenburg, the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at New York University. Valdimar chaired the Icelandic Commission for UNESCO from 2011-2012. He was president of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore from 2013-2017.
The Meertens Institute in Amsterdam is a research institute which studies and documents language and culture in the Netherlands as well as Dutch language and culture throughout the world. The institute is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology. He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut, of which he was the director until 1965.
Remieg A. M. Aerts is a Dutch historian and Professor of Dutch History at University of Amsterdam.
Dirk Peter "Dick" Blok was a Dutch scholar of onomastics. He was director of the Meertens Institute between 1965 and 1986. He succeeded founding director Piet Meertens. In 1979, during Blok's rule as director, the Institute was named after Meertens. Blok fictionally featured in the book cycle Het Bureau by J. J. Voskuil, which was based on figures at the Meertens Institute, where Voskuil worked as well.
Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta was a Dutch numismatist and archaeologist.
Hans Cools is a historian of early-modern Europe. He is a professor at the KU Leuven and a senior research fellow of the Fryske Akademy.
Hendrik Frans Karel van Nierop is a historian of early-modern Holland and professor emeritus of the University of Amsterdam.
Eduard Siegfried"Eddy"de Jongh is a Dutch art historian specialized in iconography. He was professor of art history with a teaching assignment in iconography at Utrecht University between 1976 and 1989.
Hendrik Jan Schoo also known as HJ Schoo was a Dutch author, journalist, essayist and magazine editor. He served as the editor-in-chief of Elsevier magazine and was the deputy editor of de Volkskrant newspaper for which he wrote columns.
