Editing Nijmegen (section)

== Culture ==

=== Events ===
[[File:Aankomst deelnemers van de Vierdaagse Nijmegen 2019 op de Sint Anna straat St Annastraat Via Gladiola.jpg|thumb|Four Days Marches]]

==== Four Days Marches ====
Nijmegen has hosted since 1925 the annual [[International Four Days Marches Nijmegen|Four Days Marches]] (Vierdaagse), as a means of promoting sport and exercise.<ref>{{cite book |title=De Wereld Wandelt |publisher=KNBLO, Nijmegen |page=32 |year=1991 |language=nl}}</ref> Beginning on the third Tuesday of each July, over 40,000 participants from about 70 countries undertake four days of walking with distances ranging from {{convert|30|to|50|km|0|abbr=on}} a day.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.4daagse.nl/nl/service/downloads.html|title= 4daagse website|access-date= 2018-11-10|archive-date= 2018-11-11|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181111133644/https://www.4daagse.nl/nl/service/downloads.html|url-status= dead}}</ref> The marches are supplemented with festivities such as the ''Vierdaagse Festival''.

=== People ===
[[File:Saint Petrus Canisius.jpg|100px|thumb|Saint Petrus Canisius]]
[[File:Margarita de Bourbon de Parme (2016).jpg|100px|thumb|Margarita de Bourbon de Parme, 2016]]
[[File:TitusBrandsma.jpg|100px|thumb|Titus Brandsma, 1920s]]

==== Natives ====
* [[Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] (1165–1197)
* [[Jean Malouel]] (1365-1416), painter
* [[Limbourg brothers]] (1385–1416), medieval painters
* [[Giovanni Antoniano]] (died 1588), Patristic scholar
* [[Petrus Canisius]] (1521–1597), Catholic [[saint]]
* [[Henriette Pressburg]] (1788–1863), mother of [[Karl Marx]]
* [[Henriette Pressburg#Sophie Pressburg and Lion Philips|Sophie Pressburg]] (1797–1854), grandmother of [[Anton Philips|Anton]] and [[Gerard Philips]] who founded [[Philips Electronics]]
* [[Pieter Claude Bijleveld]] (1828–1898), mayor 
* [[Carli Biessels]] (1936–2016), writer
* [[Roosje Glaser]] (1914–2000), dancer and Holocaust survivor
* [[Daphne Deckers]] (born 1968), model, host, writer and occasional actress
* [[Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma]] (born 1972), member of the [[Dutch royal family]]
* [[Prince Hugo de Bourbon de Parme]] (born 1997), member of the Dutch royal family
* [[Jos Hermens]] (born 1950), athlete
* [[Alex Van Halen]] (born 1953), musician
* [[Eddie Van Halen]] (1955-2020), musician
* [[Frank Boeijen]] (born 1957), musician
* [[Anne Quist]] (born 1957), Olympic rower
* [[Ron de Groot]] (born 1960), footballer
* [[Pie Geelen]] (born 1972), Olympic swimmer
* [[Roxane van Iperen]] (born 1976), writer
* [[Frank Demouge]] (born 1982), footballer
* [[Saadia Himi]] (born 1984), Miss Netherlands Earth 2004
* [[Nacer Barazite]] (born 1990), footballer
* [[Amira Willighagen]] (born 2004), classical singer
* [[Prince Bernhard of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven]] (born 1969), racing driver, entrepreneur and member of the Dutch royal family
* [[Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven]] (born 1972), racing driver and member of the Dutch royal family

==== Other residents ====
* [[Titus Brandsma]] – (1881–1942), Carmelite friar, philosopher and Resistance member
* [[Dries van Agt]] – (1931–2024), politician, Prime Minister of the Netherland
* [[Nina Simone]] – (1933–2003), jazz musician
* [[Edward Ka-Spel]] – (born 1954), vocalist of [[The Legendary Pink Dots]]
* [[Perry Ubeda]] – (born 1971), kickboxer
* [[Karapet Karapetyan]] – (born 1982), kickboxer
* [[Sóley Tómasdóttir]] - (born 1974), activist and former Icelandic politician

=== Religion ===
[[File:Grote of Sint-Stevenskerk.jpg|thumb|Grote of Sint-Stevenskerk Church Nijmegen]]
In 1968, theologians in the Catholic Church issued what is now known as the [[Nijmegen Statement]], demanding sweeping reforms in the Vatican's Holy Office, previously known as The Inquisition, and calling for greater scope for theological inquiry. Among its signatories was theologian Fr. [[Joseph Ratzinger]], then a member of the faculty at the [[University of Tübingen]], but later the head of the successor to the [[Holy Office]], the [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]], and later still [[Pope Benedict XVI]].

The Nijmegen Statement said: "Any form of Inquisition however subtle, not only harms the development of sound theology, it also causes irreparable damage to the credibility of the church". The signatories, a group of predominantly German-speaking theologians asserted that "the freedom of theologians, and theology in the service of the church, regained by [[Vatican II]], must not be jeopardised again." The signatories pledged their loyalty to the Pope, but argued that the teaching office of pope and bishops "cannot and must not supersede, hamper and impede the teaching task of theologians as scholars."

=== Sport ===
[[File:Goffertstadion N.E.C. Nijmegen.jpg|thumb|Goffertstadion NEC Nijmegen]]

Sport in the city is principally focused on its football club [[NEC Nijmegen]] or just NEC, short for Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie, which plays at the 12,500-seat [[Stadion de Goffert]]. The club plays in the [[Eredivisie]].

[[Bandy Vereniging Nijmegen]] is the biggest [[bandy]] club in the country. [[Netherlands national bandy team|The national team]] got celebrated by over a hundred fans and Mayor Hubert Bruls after winning Division B of the [[2018 Bandy World Championship]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=https://www.omroepgelderland.nl/nieuws/2304761/Toeters-en-confetti-voor-kampioensteam-bandy|title = Google Translate| date=5 February 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://bandynijmegen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/huldiging-Triavium.jpeg| title = Image from the celebration}}</ref>

The city is also home to one of the country's oldest [[cricket]] clubs, [[Quick 1888]], a current member of the [[Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond|KNCB]]. Formed in 1888, it is the largest cricket club in the east of the country and was formed 13 years after the first club, Utile Dulci from [[Deventer]]. The cricket club has two men's teams. The city also has the [[Nijmegen Devils]], an [[Ice hockey]] club. Nijmegen also plays host to the annual [[Zevenheuvelenloop]] (''Seven Hills Run''), an annual {{convert|15|km|0|abbr=on}} run recognised by the [[IAAF]] as a Bronze Label race.