Cornelis is a Dutch form of the male given name Cornelius .[ 2] Cees , Cor , Corné , Corneel , Crelis , Kees Neel and Nelis .[ 3]
Cornelis (Kees) and Johannes (Jan) used to be the most common given names in the Low Countries, and the origin of the term Yankees is commonly thought to derive from the term Jan-Kees for the Dutch settlers in New Netherland .[ 4] [ 5]
Among the notable persons named Cornelis are:
Cornelis Engebrechtsz (c. 1462 – 1527), painter from LeidenCornelis Massijs (c. 1508 – 1556), painter from Flanders, BelgiumCornelis Floris de Vriendt (1513/14-1575), architect and sculptorCornelis Cort (c. 1533 – 1578), engraver and draughtsmanCornelis Corneliszoon (c. 1550 – 1607), inventor of the wind powered sawmillCor Dillen (c. 1920 – 2009), director of Philips and their CEO in South America Cornelis van Haarlem (1562–1638), leading Northern Mannerist painterCornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), explorer who started the Dutch spice tradeCornelis Drebbel (1572–1633), builder of the first navigable submarineCornelis de Vos (1584–1651), Flemish Baroque painterCornelis de Graeff (1599–1664), Golden Age politicianCornelis Evertsen (disambiguation) (1610–1666, 1628–1679, 1642–1706), three admirals in the Anglo-Dutch Wars Cornelis de Witt (1623–1672), politician of the Dutch Republic Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691), admiral in the Anglo-Dutch Wars and in the Scanian War Cornelis Pietersz Bega (1631/32-1664), painter and engraverCornelis de Bruijn (1652–1726/27), artist and travelerCornelis Cruys (1655–1727), first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet Cornelis Dusart (1660–1704), genre painter, draftsman, and printmakerCornelis (born 1953), former governor of West Kalimantan , IndonesiaCornelis de Pauw (1739–1849), philosopher, geographer and diplomatCornelis Tiele (1830–1902), theologian and scholarCornelis Lely (1854–1929), civil engineer and statesmanCornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (1873–1932), South African writer and poetCornelis Bernardus van Niel (1897–1985), microbiologistCornelis Broerse (1900–1972), artistCornelis Berkhouwer (1919–1992), President of the European Parliament 1973–75Cornelis van Beverloo (1922–2010), artist better known under his pseudonym "Corneille"Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937–1987), Dutch-Swedish singer, poet and actorCornelis Zitman (1926–2016), Dutch sculptor and draftsmanCornelis Bodenstein (born 1992), South African-born cricketerCornelis Schuuring (born 1942), Dutch racing cyclist
Surname
Cornelis also is a patronymic surname , quite common in Flanders .[ 6]
See also
References
^ Norman, Teresa (2003). World of Baby Names, A (Revised) Penguin Publishing Group . p. 483. ISBN 978-1-4406-2556-5 OCLC 522378235 . Retrieved 2018-12-18 . ^ Instituut, Meertens. "NVB : voornaam Cornelis" . Welkom bij het Meertens Instituut (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-12-18 . ^ van Osta, Ward (2012). Met naam en toenaam : voornamen, familienamen en bekende merknamen Garant . p. 46. ISBN 978-90-441-2931-1 OCLC 803366714 . Retrieved 2018-12-18 .^ Philological Society (Great Britain) (1910). Transactions of the Philological Society . Retrieved 2018-12-18 . I accept the explanation by Dr. H. Logeman that Yankee was formed (like Chinee from Chinese) from the Du. Jan Kees, the familiar form of John Cornelius, an extremely common name. Cf. Jan, John, and Ke; Cornelius, in Koolman's E. Frisian ... ^ Mencken, H. L. (1963). The American language: an inquiry into the development of English in the United States. The 4th ed. and the two supplements, abridged, with annotations and new material . Retrieved 2018-12-18 . Perhaps the most notable of all the contributions of Knickerbocker Dutch to American is the word Yankee. [The most probable etymology derives it from Jan Kees (a diminutive of Cornelius, a common Dutch name), as a sort of Dutch equivalent ... ^ "Nederlandse Familienamenbank" . Nederlandse Familienamenbank (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-12-18 .
