Summary of the history of Groningen
Ubbo Emmius
William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
Aletta Jacobs
Albert Egges van Giffen
Wubbo Ockels
The Canon of Groningen is a list of 40 hallmarks and 52 icons that provides a chronological summary of the history of the city and province of Groningen .
The canon is an initiative of the former Huis van de Groninger Cultuur (since 2017 the Centrum Groninger Taal en Cultuur ),[ 1] the Cultuurhistorische vereniging Stad en Lande [ 2] and the Regional Historic Center [nl ] Groninger Archieven [nl ] .[ 3] On 8 May 2008, the canon was launched by the Queen's Commissioner Max van den Berg by firing a cannon at the Groninger Archieven . The canon has appeared in print[ 4] and can be viewed online.[ 5] This is the first provincial canon after the publication of the Canon of the Netherlands in 2006.
A selection of themes covered in the canon:
Ludger (742–809), missionary
Walfridus of Bedum [nl ] (10th/11th century), martyr
Emo of Friesland (c. 1175–1237), abbot and chronicler
Menko of Bloemhof [nl ] (born 1213), abbot and chronicler
Rodolphus Agricola (1444–1485), humanist scholar
Beetke of Rasquert [nl ] (died 1554), businesswoman
Bartholt Entens of Mentheda [nl ] (1539–1580), watergeus
Ubbo Emmius (1547–1625), rector magnificus
William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560–1620), stadhouder
Adriaan Clant [nl ] (1599–1665), diplomat
Carl von Rabenhaupt (1602–1675), defender of Stad and Ommelanden
Abel Tasman (1603–1659), explorer
Adriaan Geerts Wildervanck (1605–1661), peat colonist and founder of Wildervank
Herman Collenius [nl ] (1650–1723), painter
Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), mathematician, physicist , professor
John William, Baron Ripperda (1682–1737), ambassador
Rudolf de Mepsche (1695–1754), jonker and grietman
Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), mathematician, physicist, professor
Wilhelmus Schortinghuis (1700–1750), minister and pietist
Petrus Camper (1722–1789), zoologist , physician and professor
Geert Reinders [nl ] (1737–1815), rinderpest fighter and patriot
Gerard Bacot [nl ] (1743–1822), minister and patriot
Hendrik Wester [nl ] (1752–1821), schoolteacher and education reformer
Henri Daniel Guyot [nl ] (1753–1828), founder of the Henri Daniel Guyot Institute [nl ]
Hendrik de Cock (1801–1842), minister, stood at the cradle of the Afscheiding
Anthony Winkler Prins (1817–1908), writer and chief editor of the Winkler Prins encyclopedia
Willem Albert Scholten (1819–1892), industrialist
Jozef Israëls (1824–1911), painter
Samuel van Houten (1837–1930), politician
Otto Eerelman (1839–1926), painter
Pieter Roelf Bos [nl ] (1847–1902), publisher of the Bosatlas
Hendrik Goeman Borgesius (1847–1917), minister
Jacobus Kapteyn (1851–1922), astronomer and professor
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), physicist and Nobel laureate
Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929), physician and women's suffrage activist
Jan Schaper [nl ] (1868–1934), politician
Kornelis ter Laan (1871–1963), politician
Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), historian
Cornelis Jetses [nl ] (1873–1955), illustrator
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882–1945), artist
Albert Egges van Giffen (1884–1973), archaeologist
Frits Zernike (1888–1966), physicist and Nobel laureate
Hendrik de Vries (1896–1989), poet and painter
Dirk Stikker (1897–1979), Secretary General of NATO and diplomat
Bert Röling (1906–1985), jurist
Sicco Mansholt (1908–1995), minister and President of the European Commission
Fré Meis (1921–1992), trade unionist
Gerrit Krol (1934–2013), writer and poet
Rutger Kopland (1934–2012), poet
Ede Staal (1941–1986), singer
Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014), astronaut
Marianne Timmer (born 1974), speed skater