Amadeus (first name)

Amadeus is a male name.

Origin and meaning

The name Amadeus is made up of the imperative ama! ,love!' from Latin amare and deus 'God' together and originally means 'dear God!'. It is a compound of the rare type gr. Pheréoikos 'snail'. Size pheréoikos is made up of the imperative phere 'carry' and oikos 'house'. The compositional trailing element -oikos 'house' does not appear in the accusative ( -oikon ), but in the nominative, the case that belongs to the compound as a whole (with the new meaning 'snail' instead of 'carry-a-house') in the sentence. It's the same with Amadeus .

Interpretations as Amadeus as Deus amat , God loves' or its liabilities reversals, loved by God 'are certainly popular etymology, otherwise also as if Phereoikos formed type name Fear God , too, fear God' or 'feared God' mean.

The Greek name Theophilos has the original meaning 'friend of God' and is therefore not directly comparable with the Latin Amadeus. Like Amadeus, the German name Gottlieb can be used as 'liebe Gott!' or be interpreted as 'dear as God'. Slavic translations are Bogumil and Bogoljub .

name day

March 30 , August 30

variants

In Romance languages , the forms found

French Amadé , Amédée
Italian Amadeo , Amedeo , Amadio

The form Amadis is latinized

Based on Amadeus , a feminine form Amadea could be formed by analogy with other Latin names.

Notable bearers of the name

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer; Mozart, baptized with the name Johannes Chrysostomos Wolfgangus Theophilus, only occasionally jokingly called himself “Amadeus” , but otherwise consistently “Wolfgang Amadé” . The play and the film Amadeus are named after Mozart

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776–1822), writer and composer. Baptized with the name Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, he changed his third first name to "Amadeus" out of admiration for Mozart

Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963), composer, student of Anton Webern and Hermann Scherchen , wrote a. a. the operas Wachsfigurenkabinett (1929/30) and Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend (1935, 1955) as well as 8 symphonies .

Amadeus of Lausanne (around 1110 to 1159), Bishop of Lausanne

Amadeus August (1942–1992), German actor

Ruler

The name Amadeus was only used for rulers in Geneva , Savoy and Piedmont .

Counts of Savoy

Amadeus I (1048–1072), son of Humbert I , originally Count of Maurienne

Amadeus II is said to have refused to allow Emperor Henry IV to enter Italy until he had promised him part of Burgundy

Amadeus III. Son of Humbert II , count since 1108, was made imperial count by Emperor Heinrich V and died in 1148 during a crusade in Nicosia on Cyprus

Amadeus IV. Count 1233–1253, was appointed Duke of Chablais and Aosta by Emperor Friedrich II and tried in vain to mediate between Pope and Emperor

Amadeus V the Great; since 1283 Count of Aosta, since 1285 Count of Savoy. He was appointed imperial prince and imperial vicar in Italy by his brother-in-law, Emperor Heinrich VII , decreed the indivisibility of his states and introduced primogeniture . Died in 1323

Amadeus VI. (1334-1383)

Amadeus VII the red count, 1360-1391; acquired u. a. Nice

Dukes of Savoy

Amadeus VIII : the peaceable, 1383–1451. Was in 1416 by King Sigismund elevated to Duke, appeared in 1434 and became the Council of Basel as Felix V. the anti-pope elected. He resigned after 10 years of pontificate
Amadeus IX. (1435–1472), the blessed ; Grandson of A. VIII., Ruled 1465–1468, had to reign for health reasons from his wife Jolanthe, the sister of Louis XI. transferred from France

Counts of Piedmont

Amadeus the Great (1366–1402)

Count of Geneva

Four counts named Amadeus ruled Geneva in the 12th and 14th centuries, see List of Counts of Geneva .

Dukes of Aosta

Amadeus I (1845–1890) was the second son of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, was elected King of Spain after the overthrow of the Spanish Bourbons in 1870 , but could not hold out and abdicated in 1873

Amadeus, 3rd Duke of Aosta (1898–1942) was a grandson of Amadeus I and an Italian general in World War II

Amadeus of Savoy (1943)

Such as

Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian draftsman, painter and sculptor
Amadeus (moderator) , stage name of Amedeo Sebastiani (* 1962), Italian moderator
Rambo Amadeus , stage name of Antonije Pušić (* 1963), Montenegrin singer and satirist