Ansgar
Ansgar is the German form of a Germanic male personal name.
Origin and meaning of the name
The name is made up of the two Old High German words *? Ans ( Ase , Gott, Gottheit ) and * gair (spear, spear) or gēr (spear, throwing spear, trident). The full etymology is as follows:
Indo-European * ansu- (spirit, demon) → Urgermanic * ansu- , * ansuz (God, Ase, a-rune) → Old High German *? Ans (Ase, God, deity)
Indo-European * g̑ʰaiso- (stick, spear, spear) → Primitive Germanic * gaiza- , * gaizaz (spear, stick, spear) → Old High German * gēr (spear, throwing spear, trident)
The meaning of the name is accordingly "Asen spear" or "Spear of the Aesir", or "Spear of the gods" or "Spear of the gods".
variants
- Old English: Osgar
- Old Norse: ÁsgæiRR, ǢsgæiRR
- Danish: Asger , Asgar, Asker, Askar, Anker
- German: Ansger, Esge, Eske
- English: Oscar
- Finnish: Anskar, Ansar, Anskari
- Icelandic: Ásgeir
- Italian: Ascari , Anscario, Aschieri, Ascheri
- Latin: Ansgarius, Anskarius, Ancharius, Anscharius
- Lithuanian: Oskaras
- Low German: Anshar
- Norwegian: Asgeir , Åsgeir
- Portuguese: Óscar
- Scandinavian: Oskar
- Spanish: Óscar
- Original Germanic: Ansigar
distribution
The name is most widespread today in northwest Germany, especially in Catholic areas such as the Münsterland and Emsland.
name day
Well-known namesake
- St. Ansgar (801–865), Archbishop for Scandinavia, Hamburg and Bremen
- Ansgar Beckermann (* 1945), German philosopher
- Ansgar Belke (* 1965), German economist
- Ansgar Bethge (1924–2008), German naval officer
- Ansgar Brinkmann (* 1969), German soccer player
- Ansgar Denner (* 1960), German physicist
- Ansgar Dreher (1912–1990), German Benedictine monk and artist
- Ansgar Focke (* 1982), German politician
- Ansgar Frerich (* 1977), German sound mixer and cultural worker
- Ansgar Fürst (* 1930), German journalist
- Ansgar Gabrielsen (* 1955), Norwegian politician
- Ansgar Graw (* 1961), German journalist and publicist
- Ansgar Haag (* 1955), German theater director, director and dramaturge
- Ansgar Hense (* 1965), German state church lawyer
- Ansgar Heveling (* 1972), German politician
- Ansgar Hörsting (* 1965), President of the Federation of Free Evangelical Congregations in Germany
- Ansgar Hüning (* 1966), German singer
- Ansgar Jüngel (* 1966), German mathematician
- Ansgar Kemmann (* 1963), German rhetorician and book author
- Ansgar Koschel (1943–2007), German Roman Catholic theologian
- Ansgar Krause (* 1956), German concert guitarist, arranger and professor of guitar
- Ansgar Lange (* 1971), German political scientist and journalist
- Ansgar Mayer (* 1972), German journalist
- Ansgar Müller (* 1958), German politician
- Knut Ansgar Nelson (1906–1990), Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm
- Ansgar Niebuhr (* 1968), German director and animator
- Ansgar Nierhoff (1941–2010), German sculptor
- Ansgar Nünning (* 1959), German English and literary scholar
- Ansgar Ohly (* 1965), German legal scholar
- Ansgar Pichen (1913–1945), head of the camp kitchen in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- Ansgar Puff (* 1956), German auxiliary bishop
- Ansgar Rau (* 1959), German radio journalist
- Ansgar Reiss (* 1965), German historian
- Ansgar Rieks (* 1959), Major General in the German Air Force
- Ansgar Sailer (* 1969), German musician, arranger, conductor and music teacher
- Ansgar Schoppmeyer (1857–1922), German book designer and typographer
- Ansgar Schulz (* 1966), German architect
- Ansgar Schwenken (* 1969), German football official
- Ansgar Skriver (1934–1997), German journalist
- Ansgar Staudinger (* 1968), German professor of law
- Ansgar Striepens (* 1965), German jazz musician
- Ansgar Trächtler (* 1964), holder of the chair for control engineering and mechatronics at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at the University of Paderborn
- Ansgar Maria van Treeck (* 1957), German photographer
- Ansgar Varnhagen (* 1979), German athlete
- Ansgar Wallenhorst (* 1967), German church musician, concert organist and theologian
- Ansgar Wessling (* 1961), German rower
- Ansgar Weymann (* 1945), German sociologist
- Ansgar Zerfaß (* 1965), German communication and media scientist
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.koeblergerhard.de/ahd/ahd_a.html Köbler, Gerhard, Old High German Dictionary, (6th edition) 2014; Letter a
- ↑ a b http://www.koeblergerhard.de/ahd/ahd_g.html Köbler, Gerhard, Old High German Dictionary, (6th edition) 2014; Letter: G
Web links
Wiktionary: Ansgar - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
