Alfons
Alfons , also Alphons , is a male given name. The female form is Alfonsa or Alphonsa .
Origin and meaning
The original meaning of Alfons is uncertain.
It is possible that the name is composed of the Old High German adal (noble) or al (whole) and funs (ready). But it could also be a form of the old Germanic name Hildefons , which means “ready for battle” ( hild “fight”, funs “ready”).
In the course of the Great Migration, the name spread in the Romance-speaking areas: Catalan also Alfons , French Alphonse , Italian Alfonso , Spanish Alfonso and Alonso and Portuguese Afonso . On the Iberian Peninsula, princes often bore this name. In the German-speaking countries, the name only became popular again through the veneration of St. Alfons Maria de Liguori , an Italian Redemptorist from the 18th century.
Connotation in some languages
Probably going back to the drama Monsieur Alphonse (1873) by Alexandre Dumas the Elder. J. the name Alfons is used in some languages as a more or less cryptic name for a pimp . For example in Danish . Pimping is also referred to here as "alfonseri". Perhaps that is why there were only seven bearers of the name in all of Denmark in 2006. Also in Polish and Norwegian has Alfons the connotation pimp .
See also: Fake Friends List
name day
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August 1st ( Alfonso Maria de Liguori )
- August 2nd in Switzerland; possibly because August 1st is occupied by the Swiss Federal Holiday .
- October 31 ( Alfons or Alonso Rodriguez )
Name bearer
Spelling Alfons
Saints:
Ruler:
other:
- Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily (1901–1964), Spanish nobleman, member of the House of Bourbon, Duke of Calabria
- Alfonso of Braganza (1377–1461), Duke of Portugal; illegitimate son of John I of Portugal
other:
- Alfons Abel (1908–1994), German academic glass painter
- Alfons Auer (1915–2005), German moral theologian
- Alfons Barth (1913–2003), Swiss architect
- Alfons Bauer (composer) (1920–1997), German composer and zither player
- Alfons Bauer (* 1933), Austrian Holocaust denier, see Walter Lüftl
- Alfons Maria Bauer (1912–1998), German painter
- Alfons Paul Maria Bauer (1894–1959), German painter
- Alfons Bayerl (1923-2009), German politician (SPD)
- Alfons Becker (1922–2011), German historian
- Alfons Benedikter (1918–2010), political representative of the German-speaking part of the population in South Tyrol
- Alfons Bürge (* 1947), Swiss legal scholar
- Alfons Brijdenbach (1954–2009), Belgian sprinter
- Alfons Czibulka (1842–1894), Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster and composer
- Alfons Dalma (1919–1999), Croatian-Austrian journalist
- Alfons Deissler (1914-2005), German Catholic theologian
- Alfons Demming (1928–2012), auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Münster
- Alfons Dopsch (1868–1953), Austrian historian ( medievalist ) and diplomat
- Alfons Dreher (1896–1980), German teacher, historian and archivist
- Alfons Epple (1899–1948), landscape painter, portraitist and church painter
- Alfons Erb (1907–1983), founder of the Maximilian Kolbe factory
- Alfons Goppel (1905–1991), German politician (CSU), Prime Minister of Bavaria from 1962 to 1978
- Alfons Gorbach (1898–1972), Austrian politician (ÖVP), Austrian Federal Chancellor from 1961 to 1964
- Alfons Heimes (* 1946), Mayor of Lennestadt
- Alfons Higl (* 1964), German soccer player
- Alfons Höckmann (1923–2014), German actor, theater director and director
- Alfons Kahn (1908–1985), German lawyer and resistance fighter
- Alfons Kirchgässner (writer) (1909–1993), German theologian and writer
- Alfons A. Nehring (1890–1967), German linguist
- Jerzy Popiełuszko (baptismal name Alfons Popiełuszko) (1947–1984), Polish Catholic priest, beatified
- Alfons Schuhbeck (* 1949), German cook
- Alfons Teuber (1903–1971), German actor and writer
- Alfons Würzl (≈1940–2016), Austrian jazz musician
family name
- Claudia Alfons (* 1983), German local politician
Fictitious:
- Alfons, character of the cabaret artist Emmanuel Peterfalvi
- Alfons Zitterbacke (children's book character by Gerhard Holtz-Baumert )
- Alfons, Goofy's nephew
- King Alfonso the Quarter-to-Twelfth , character from the novel Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
- Alfons Friedrichsberg, main character in the crime stories by Kai Magnus Sting
Pseudonym:
- Alfons with the Puschel microphone, character of the Franco-German cabaret artist Emmanuel Peterfalvi (* 1967)
feminine form: Alfonsa
- Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception (1910–1946), Indian religious sister
Spelling Alphons
Family name:
- Manuela Alphons (* 1946), Austrian theater and television actress
First name:
- Alphons Albertin (1736–1790), German composer
- Alphons Diepenbrock (1862–1921), Dutch composer, writer and classical philologist
- Alphons Egli (1924–2016), Swiss politician (CVP)
- Alphons Fryland (1888–1953), Austrian actor
- Alphons Gaertner (1892-1949), German politician (DDP / LDP)
- Alphons Horten (1907–2003), German entrepreneur and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
- Kurt-Alphons Jochheim (1921–2013), German physician, scientist in rehabilitation medicine
- Alphons Martini (1829–1880), German physician
- Alphons Mayr von Baldegg (1789–1875), Swiss military in French service
- Alphons Pfyffer (1753–1822), Swiss politician
- Emil Alphons Rheinhardt (1889–1945), Austrian writer
- Alphons Rodriguez (1526-1616), Spanish priest, Jesuit
- Alphons Roellinger (1849–1918), Catholic clergyman, member of the Reichstag
- Alphons Silbermann (1909–2000), German social scientist and journalist
- Moritz Alphons Stübel (1835–1904), German naturalist, geologist, geographer, ethnologist
- Alphons Thun (1853–1885), Estonian economist and university professor
- Alphons Žák (1868–1931), Austrian Premonstratensian canon and historian
feminine form: Alphonsa
- Elisabeth Alphonsa Maria Eppinger (1814–1867), founder of the Catholic order
See also
- List of rulers named Alfons
- (233707) Alfons
- Afonso
- Alfonsin
- Alfonso
- Alfonso de Borbon
- Alonso
- Alphonse
- Alphonso
- Alphonsus
- Fons (name)
