Alban (name)
Alban ( Latin Albanus ) is a male given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
It is certain that Alban, due to its reference to the Latin Albanus , must have its temporal origin in Roman antiquity at the latest. However, there is disagreement about the exact origin and the resulting meaning of the name.
- He could be called “inhabitant of the Albania countryside ” (west of the Caspian Sea ). However, the lack of Roman characteristics of Albania speaks against this.
- More likely z. B. the meaning "residents of the city of Alba " (in Piedmont ). With this urban design it should be noted that Alba Fucens and the mother city of Rome Alba Longa , located on Lake Albano and on the Alban Mountains , are also considered. Alba Longa speaks especially the lat. Inhabitants name Albani ( Pl. ) Or Albanus ( sg. ). Accordingly, the meaning “residents of Alba Longa” is the most appropriate.
- A derivation from the Latin albus for “white” or a derivation from the Latin name Albinus (“the white”), so that “the white” or “the white dressed” / “the festively dressed” ( lat. albatus) would have to be translated. This is countered by the fact that the name Albin already comes from Albinus and that in turn comes from albus . Alban should therefore be regarded as a derivation in this regard.
- Another derivation says that the name comes from the Illyrian tribe of the Albanoi ( Gr. Ἀλβανοί , Latin Albani ), from which the ethnonym Albanians comes. Therefore Alban can also mean “Albanians” , “the one from Albania” or “the one from the tribe of the Albanoi” .
Thus several alternative derivations exist side by side with this name.
distribution
The name is used in many Christian countries, especially in Albanian-speaking countries (there, however, mainly as a reference to the Illyrian tribe of the Albanoi) because of the Albanian saint below.
name day
- June 21, Saint Alban of Mainz , † 406
- June 22nd Saint Alban of England , † 306
It was at times controversial whether the two were actually two people. The confusion was exacerbated by the fact that they were both supposed to have been beheaded with the sword around the midsummer day. In martyrology Roman both listed separately. It is now assumed that both are historical figures. It is possible that the hagiography of both was mixed up: both are shown with their heads severed in their hands because of the nature of their deaths. In the south and south-west of Germany and in Switzerland, the patronage usually goes back to St. Alban von Mainz.
Because of their popularity, a large number of places, cities and even mountains were named St. Alban after them throughout Europe and North America .
- January 21, Saint Alban Roe , † 1642 (English martyr)
variants
- Latin : Albanus
Name bearer
Historic time
- Alban of England († 306), Christian martyr in Britain
- Alban von Mainz († 406), priest, missionary and martyr
First name
- Alban Berg (1885–1935), Austrian composer
- Alban Bushi (* 1973), Albanian football player
- Alban Collignon (1876–1955), Belgian sports journalist and cycling official
- Alban von Dorbenck (1833–1919), German farmer, politician and genealogist
- Alban Förster (1849–1916), German composer
- Alban Gerhardt (* 1969), German cellist
- Alban Nikolai Herbst (* 1955), German writer, librettist, critic and director
- Alban Janson (* 1948), German architect, urban planner, architectural theorist and university professor
- Alban Köhler (1874–1947), German radiologist
- Alban Lafont (* 1999), French football goalkeeper
- Alban Meha (* 1986), Albanian football player
- Alban W. Phillips (1914–1975), New Zealand-British economist
- Alban Ramaj (* 1985), Albanian football player
- Alban Sabah (* 1992), German soccer player
- Alban Skenderaj (* 1982), Albanian singer
- Alban Spitz (1906–1996), German visual artist and author
- Alban Stolz (1808–1883), German professor of theology, folk writer and educationalist
- Alban Thorer (~ 1489–1550), Swiss physician, philologist, rector, translator and editor
- Alban Wüst (1947–2000), German soccer player
family name
- August Albanus (clergyman) (1765–1839), German educator and clergyman
- August Albanus (medic) (1837–1887), Russian medic and zoologist
- Carlo Alban (* 1979), Ecuadorian actor
- Dick Alban (born 1929), American football player
- Esow Alban , Indian track cyclist
- Ernst Alban (1791–1856), German mechanical engineer
- Laureano Albán (* 1942), Costa Rican writer
- Matthias Alban (1634–1712), Tyrolean violin maker
- Robert Alban (* 1952), French racing cyclist
stage name
- Dr. Alban (* 1957), Swedish-Nigerian pop musician
swell
- Otto Wimmer, Hartmann Melzer: Lexicon of names and saints. Nikol Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-63-5 .
