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Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch

(Encyclopedia)Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch hn´drk frnsh frvoort´ [key], 1901–66, South African political leader, b. Holland. He was taken as an infant to South Africa when his parents emigrated as missio...

Vorster, Balthazar Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Vorster, Balthazar Johannes yhän´s bältäzär´ fôr´str [key], 1915–83, South African political leader. A lawyer, John Vorster became involved in the Afrikaner nationalist movement and he...

Conscience, Hendrik

(Encyclopedia)Conscience, Hendrik hn´drk kôNsäNs´ [key], 1812–83, Flemish novelist, a founder of modern Flemish literature. His many historical novels were romantic but powerful, in the tradition of Sco...

Goltzius, Hendrik

(Encyclopedia)Goltzius, Hendrik or Hendrick hn´drk gôlt´süs [key], 1558–1617, Dutch line engraver and painter; son of a stained-glass painter. He is said to have blended the naturalism of Northern Europ...

Oort, Jan Hendrik

(Encyclopedia)Oort, Jan Hendrik rt [key], 1900–1992, Dutch astronomer. He confirmed (1927) Bertil Lindblad's theory of the Milky Way galaxy's rotation. In the 1950s he and his colleagues used radio astronomical...

Mesdag, Hendrik Willem

(Encyclopedia)Mesdag, Hendrik Willem hn´drk vl´m ms´däkh [key], 1831–1915, Dutch marine painter. He gave up banking at 35 to study painting. He later lived at The Hague and was known as a painter an...

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

(Encyclopedia)Baekeland, Leo Hendrik bk´lnd [key], 1863–1944, American chemist, b. Belgium, grad. Univ. of Ghent, 1882. In 1889 he emigrated to the United States. He founded (1893) and conducted, until 1899,...

Balen, Hendrik van

(Encyclopedia)Balen, Hendrik van hn´drk vän bä´ln [key], 1575–1632, Flemish painter, b. Antwerp. Van Balen usually provided the figures for scenes in which another painter, frequently Jan Brueghel, desi...

Tollens, Hendrik Franciscus

(Encyclopedia)Tollens, Hendrik Franciscus hn´drk fränss´ks tôl´ns [key], 1780–1856, Dutch poet. Among the leading Dutch romantics, he was popular for his homely and sincere patriotic verse. His pri...

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