Canon of Groningen


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, the Cultuurhistorische vereniging Stad en Lande and the . 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 and can be viewed online. This is the first provincial canon after the publication of the Canon of the Netherlands in 2006.

Hallmarks

A selection of themes covered in the canon:

Icons

  1. Ludger, missionary
  2. , martyr
  3. Emo of Friesland, abbot and chronicler
  4. Menko of Bloemhof, abbot and chronicler
  5. Rodolphus Agricola, humanist scholar
  6. , businesswoman
  7. , watergeus
  8. Ubbo Emmius, rector magnificus
  9. William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, stadhouder
  10. , diplomat
  11. Carl von Rabenhaupt, defender of Stad and Ommelanden
  12. Abel Tasman, explorer
  13. Adriaan Geerts Wildervanck, peat colonist and founder of Wildervank
  14. , painter
  15. Johann Bernoulli, mathematician, physicist, professor
  16. John William, Baron Ripperda, ambassador
  17. Rudolf de Mepsche, jonker and grietman
  18. Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician, physicist, professor
  19. Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, minister and pietist
  20. Petrus Camper, zoologist, physician and professor
  21. , rinderpest fighter and patriot
  22. Gerard Bacot, minister and patriot
  23. , schoolteacher and education reformer
  24. , founder of the
  25. Hendrik de Cock, minister, stood at the cradle of the Afscheiding
  26. Anthony Winkler Prins, writer and chief editor of the Winkler Prins encyclopedia
  27. Willem Albert Scholten, industrialist
  28. Jozef Israëls, painter
  29. Samuel van Houten, politician
  30. Otto Eerelman, painter
  31. , publisher of the Bosatlas
  32. Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, minister
  33. Jacobus Kapteyn, astronomer and professor
  34. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, physicist and Nobel laureate
  35. Aletta Jacobs, physician and women's suffrage activist
  36. , politician
  37. Kornelis ter Laan, politician
  38. Johan Huizinga, historian
  39. , illustrator
  40. Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, artist
  41. Albert Egges van Giffen, archaeologist
  42. Frits Zernike, physicist and Nobel laureate
  43. Hendrik de Vries, poet and painter
  44. Dirk Stikker, Secretary General of NATO and diplomat
  45. Bert Röling, jurist
  46. Sicco Mansholt, minister and President of the European Commission
  47. Fré Meis, trade unionist
  48. Gerrit Krol, writer and poet
  49. Rutger Kopland, poet
  50. Ede Staal, singer
  51. Wubbo Ockels, astronaut
  52. Marianne Timmer, speed skater