Gerrit
Encyclopedia
Gerrit is a Dutch
male name meaning "brave with the spear", the Dutch and Frisian form of Gerard. Gerrit may refer to:
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
male name meaning "brave with the spear", the Dutch and Frisian form of Gerard. Gerrit may refer to:
- Gerrit AchterbergGerrit AchterbergGerrit Achterberg was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death.Achterberg was born in Nederlangbroek in the Netherlands as the third son of a family of nine children. He was raised as a Protestant within the Calvinist tradition. His father was a coach...
(1905–1962), Dutch poet - Gerrit KomrijGerrit KomrijGerrit Jan Komrij is a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands .-Biography:...
(born 1944), Dutch poet - Gerrit RietveldGerrit RietveldGerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.-Biography:Rietveld was born in...
(1888–1964), Dutch architect - Gerrit SmithGerrit SmithGerrit Smith was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist...
(1797–1874), American abolitionist - Gerrit ZalmGerrit ZalmGerrit Zalm is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . He served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister from May 27, 2003 until February 22, 2007 in the Cabinets Balkenende II and III. He served earlier as Minister of Finance in the Cabinets Kok I and...
, Dutch politician - Gerrit van PoeljeGerrit van PoeljeGerrit Abraham van Poelje was a Dutch civil servant, lawyer and Public Administration scholar...
(1884–1976), founder of Public Administration in the Netherlands - GerritGerrit (software)Gerrit is a free, web-based collaborative code review tool that integrates with Git. It has been developed at Google by Shawn Pearce for the development of the Android project....
, a code review tool fork of RietveldRietveld (Software)Rietveld is a web-based collaborative code review tool for Subversion written by Guido van Rossum to run on Google's cloud service. Guido based Rietveld on the experience he had writing Mondrian. Mondrian is a proprietary application used internally by Google to review their code.Gerrit is a fork...