Quirijn is a Dutch masculine given name. It is a form of Quirinus. The name Quirinus became popular in the Low Countries due to the veneration of Saint Quirinus of Neuss.[1] The name took many different forms from the 15th century on: Corijn, Crijn, Krijn, Quirijn and Quiringh. Among female versions are Krijntje and Quirine. People with these names include:
- Quirijn
- Quirijn Boel (1620–1668), Flemish engraver
- Quirijn van Brekelenkam (c.1625–c.1670), Dutch genre painter
- Quirijn Jansz Damast (1580–1638), Dutch linen weaver and mayor of Haarlem
- Quirijn Gunning (born 1991), Dutch cricketer
- Quirijn Maurits Rudolph Ver Huell (1787–1860), Dutch navy officer, writer, painter and entomologist
- Crijn / Krijn
- Krijn, name given to a Neanderthal man, whose fossil was discovered off the Dutch coast
- Krijn ter Braak (born 1941), Dutch actor and television director
- Krijn Breur (1917–1943), Dutch resistance fighter in World War II
- Crijn Fredericks, chief engineer of the New Netherland colony in 1625 and 1626
- Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn (1601–1645), Dutch painter
- Krijn Torringa (1940–2006), Dutch radio presenter
- Quirine
- Quirine Lemoine (born 1991), Dutch tennis player
- Quirine Oosterveld (born 1990), Dutch volleyball player
- Quirine Viersen (born 1972), Dutch cellist
References
- ↑ Quirinus at the Meertens Institute database of given names in the Netherlands.
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