page_title: Het Hogeland
section_title: Public thinking & Public Service
hierarchical_section_title: Het Hogeland / Notable people / Public thinking & Public Service
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: portret van Wigbolt Ripperda door de Menkemaborg toegeschreven aan Herman Collenius
context_page_description: Het Hogeland is a municipality in the north of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands.
context_section_description: Rodolphus Agricola (ca.1443 in Baflo – 1485) a pre-Erasmian humanist, Hebrew scholar, educator, musician and builder of a church organ
  Wigbolt, Baron Ripperda (ca.1535 in Winsum – 1573) city governor of Haarlem when the city was under siege in the Eighty Years' War
  Willem Surenhuis (c.1664 in Rottum – 1729) a Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew
  Hendrik Bulthuis (1865 in Warffum – 1945) a Dutch customs official, author and translator of more than thirty works into Esperanto
  Gezina van der Molen (1892 in Baflo - 1978) legal scholar and resistance fighter during WW11
  Cornelis Simon Meijer (1904 in Pieterburen – 1974) a Dutch mathematician and academic
  Sicco Mansholt (1908 in Ulrum – 1995) a Dutch politician and diplomat
  Aldert van der Ziel (1910 in Zandeweer – 1991) a Dutch physicist who studied electronic noise processes
  Molly Geertsema (1918–1991) politician and jurist, Mayor of Warffum 1953-1957
  Martin Zijlstra (1944 in Eenrum – 2014) a Dutch politician
  Gert Hekma (born 1951 in Bedum) a Dutch anthropologist, sociologist and academic
  Klaas Knot (born 1967 in Bedum) a Dutch economist, President of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank
caption: Wigbolt Ripperda
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