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18-489: Van Rensselaer may refer to: Van Rensselaer family , a prominent Dutch American family Van Rensselaer (surname) , a surname (including a list of people with the name) Van Rensselaer Island , an island in the Hudson River opposite the city of Albany, New York, United States Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House , Claverack, New York, United States Van Rensselaer Hall,

36-485: A dormitory for women at Drexel University Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, a building of Cornell University College of Human Ecology See also [ edit ] Van Rensselaer Richmond (1812–1883), New York civil engineer and politician Rensselaer (disambiguation) Rensselaerswyck Van Rensselaer's Regiment Edgar Van Ranseleer, a character in Archie Bunker's Place Topics referred to by

54-497: A particular place (e.g. Willem van Oranje "William of [the] Orange [family] "; Jan van Ghent "John [who hails] from Ghent "). The preposition " van " is the most widely used preposition in Dutch surnames, but many others are also used, although not always recognised as such if the whole surname is written as a single word. Just as " van " all these prepositions used to indicate geographical locations: Apart from these prepositions

72-578: A single-worded or two-worded surnames, as in Vandervelde or Vande Velde . Prominent examples include "Vandenberg" and " Vanderbilt ". The German " von " and English House of are a linguistic cognate of the Dutch " van "; however, unlike the German " von ", the Dutch " van " is not necessarily indicative of the person's nobility or royalty . Van has a history of being used by nobility and commoners alike to simply signify ancestral relation to

90-530: Is a family of Dutch descent that was prominent during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in the area now known as the state of New York . Members of this family played a critical role in the formation of the United States and served as leaders in business, politics and society. The Van Rensselaers were of Dutch origin, and the family originally migrated from the Netherlands to a large area along

108-527: Is also common and can be written as a single word with the rest of the surname; an example being Johannes Vermeer ( van der meer "of the lake "). Collation and capitalisation of names differs between countries. In the Netherlands and Suriname , names starting with " van " are filed under the initial letter of the following name proper, so Johannes van der Waals is filed under "W", as: "Waals, Johannes van der" or "van der Waals, Johannes". The "v"

126-725: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Van Rensselaer family Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1630–1640s) Various (1640s–1652) Jan Baptist van Rensselaer (1652–1658) Jeremias van Rensselaer (1658–1674) Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1674–1687) Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1687–1719) Jeremias van Rensselaer (1719–1745) Stephen van Rensselaer I (1745–1747) Stephen van Rensselaer II (1747–1769) Abraham Ten Broeck (1769–1784, de facto) Stephen van Rensselaer III (1784–1839) The Van Rensselaer family ( / ˈ r ɛ n s l ər , - s l ɪər / )

144-519: Is usually spelled Vincent Van Gogh in Belgium. In Flemish surnames the "V" is always capitalised though a following interjected " de ", " den " ('the') or " der " ('of the', 'from the') usually stays lowercase. In South Africa the Afrikaans surname Van der Merwe would be listed under the "v" section as is done in Belgium and not under "m" as in "Merwe, J. van der"; however, South Africa follows

162-459: Is written in lower case, except when the surname is used as standalone (when the first name or initials are omitted), in which case it is capitalised, as in " de schilder Vincent van Gogh " and " de schilder Van Gogh " ("the painter Van Gogh"). In compound terms like " de Van Goghtentoonstelling " ("the Van Gogh exhibition") the "v" is capitalised, unless the connection between the person and

180-676: The Hudson River in the present-day area of Albany, New York . The Van Rensselaers and other patroons named this young colony New Netherland . Many members of the family were active in politics and in the military. They are best known for the Rensselaerswyck estate of roughly a million acres, which although broken up by the Anti-Rent Revolt in the 1840s, had long cemented the Van Rensselaer family as one of

198-648: The "Van" is not of Dutch origin, such as in the Vietnamese middle name Wen or Van , (as in Dương Văn Minh , Nguyễn Văn Thiệu ), the "v" is not lowercase. In some names, usually those of the Flemish/Belgian ones, and also some of the names of people from outside the Low Countries (with Dutch-speaking immigrant ancestors), the prefixes are concatenated to each other or to the name proper and form

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216-524: The United States, but in the British Isles some families of Dutch origin continue to use the Dutch form (e.g. Caroline van den Brul ). Names in other languages may contain a component "Van" that is unrelated to the Dutch preposition. The common Vietnamese middle name " Văn ", often spelled in English text without diacritics, as in " Pham Van Tra ", is a male given name, implying education. Where

234-534: The Van Rensselaers. Van (Dutch) In surnames, it can appear by itself or in combination with an article (compare French de la , du , de l' ). The most common cases of this are van de , van der and van den , where the articles are all current or archaic forms of the article de "the". Less common are van het and van 't , which use the similar but grammatically neuter article het . The contraction ver- , based on van der ,

252-496: The concept is or has become very weak. In Belgium , any surnames beginning with " Van " or " van " are filed under "V". So for example Eric Van Rompuy is listed under the "V" section, not under the "R". The lowercase spelling in a name from the Netherlands is respected but not necessarily differentiated in alphabetical ordering and its Dutch style capitalisation for certain usages is generally unknown and thus not followed. The painter's full name, however, having become commonplace,

270-408: The prefix "de" (not a preposition but an article, meaning "the") is also very common. They indicate a property, quality or origin, as in " de Lange " (the tall one), " de Korte " (the short one), " de Kleine " (the little one), " de Groot " (the big one), " de Zwart ", " de Wit ", " de Rode " (the one with black, white, red hair or skin), " de Rijke " (the rich one). The most widespread Dutch family name

288-578: The same capitalisation convention as the Netherlands (thus, one would refer in English or in Afrikaans to a "Jan van der Merwe" when the first name is included, but simply to "Van der Merwe" when the first name is omitted). In anglicised versions of Dutch names (as in Dick Van Dyke , George Vancouver , Martin Van Buren , Robert J. Van de Graaff ), the " van " is almost always capitalised in

306-424: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Van Rensselaer . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Van_Rensselaer&oldid=749702813 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

324-535: The wealthiest in early America. Herman Melville , a descendant of the Van Rensselaer family, mentioned them in the first chapter of his novel Moby-Dick : "It touches one's sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs , or Hardicanutes ." Edith Wharton , a Van Rensselaer cousin, is said to have based the Van der Luydens in The Age of Innocence on

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