- Oldenbarneveldt, Jan Van by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... also Oldenbarnevelt, Barnevelt). Born Sept. 14, 1547, in Amersfoort; died May 13, 1619, in The Hague. Dutch statesman and de facto ruler of the province of Holland as its grand pensionary from 1586 to 1619.A leader of the ruling merchant oligarchy in Holland, Olden-barneveldt sought to secure Holland’s hegemony within the United Provinces under the guise of ...
- Briggs, Henry by Jessica Daniel
1561–1630, English mathematician. He was the first professor of geometry at Gresham College, London (1596–1619), and Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford (from 1619). After publication of Napier's work on logarithms in 1614, Briggs suggested that the logarithms be tabulated to the base 10, and Napier agreed to the alteration. Briggs wrote Arithmetica logarithmica. (1624), a work ...
- Frederick V by Elijah Tate
German Friedrich known as Frederick the Winter King(born Aug. 26, 1596, Amberg, Upper Palatinate—died Nov. 29, 1632, Mainz) Elector palatine of the Rhine (1610–23) and king of Bohemia (as Frederick I) for one winter (1619–20). The Protestant Bohemian estates revolted against the Catholic emperor Ferdinand II and offered the crown to Frederick (1619), making him head of the Protestant union ...
- Laurel by Webster's
... n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.(n.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.(n.) A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame ...
- Hilliard by Adrianna Gibson
Nicholas. 1537--1619, English miniaturist, esp of portraits