Auguste

Auguste [ ɑɡyst ] is a female and French masculine given name .

Origin and meaning

The name is a form of Augusta or August . See there for etymology and variants.

Name bearers

• Auguste of Mecklenburg (1674–1756)
• Auguste Dorothea von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1749–1810) (1749–1810), Abbess of the Imperial Free Secular Imperial Monastery of Gandersheim
• Auguste Reuss zu Ebersdorf (1757–1831)
• Auguste Karoline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1764–1788), member of the House of Hanover (Welfen) and, by marriage, Princess of Württemberg
• Auguste Wilhelmine of Hessen-Darmstadt (1765–1796)
  • Karoline Auguste of Bavaria (1792–1873)
• Auguste Pattberg (1769–1850), German collector of songs and sagas and poet
• Auguste of Hessen-Homburg (1776–1871)
• Auguste Charlotte von Kielmannsegge (1777–1863), Napoleon's agent
• Auguste von Prussia (1780–1841) Electress of Hesse, wife of Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse
• Auguste of Bavaria (1788-1851)
• Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau (1793-1854)
• Auguste von Hessen (1797–1889), by marriage Duchess of Cambridge and Viceroy of Hanover
• Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890)
• Auguste von Littrow (1819–1890)
• Auguste Reuss zu Köstritz (1822–1862)
• Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (1825–1864), Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany
• Auguste Viktoria (1858–1921), last German Empress, wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

• Auguste Groner (1850–1929), Austrian writer
• Auguste Adenauer (1895–1948), second wife of Konrad Adenauer
• Auguste Lechner (1905–2000), Austrian writer

Name bearer

• Auguste Aramini (~ 1875–1950), French singer
• Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy (1796–1867), French poet
• Auguste Brouet (1872–1941), French graphic artist
• Auguste Chauveau (1827-1917), French veterinarian and researcher
• Auguste de Beauharnais (1810–1835), Duke of Leuchtenberg
• Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot (1817–1882), French general
• Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935), French cook
• Auguste Forel (1848–1931), Swiss psychiatrist and entomologist
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French painter
• Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), French sculptor
• Auguste van Dievoet (1803–1865), Belgian legal historian
• Auguste-Lucien Vérité (1806–1887), French watchmaker
• Auguste Wampach (1911–1988), Luxembourgish Roman Catholic clergyman and resistance fighter

Auguste as a family name

• Arsène Auguste (1951-1993), Haitian football player
• Jules Robert Auguste (1789–1850), French painter and sculptor of impressionism
• Louis Auguste-Dormeuil (1868–1951), French sailor
• Tancrède Auguste (1856–1913), President of Haiti

See also

• The Christmas goose Auguste (fairy tale) , fairy tale by Friedrich Wolf
  • The Christmas goose Auguste (film) , based on the fairy tale film by Bodo Fürneisen (1988)
  • The Christmas goose Auguste (cartoon) , based on the fairy tale based puppet cartoon by Günter Rätz (1985)
• Aiguste
• Golden Auguste

Others

• Auguste Island , Antarctica
• Auguste colliery , hard coal mine in Witten-Auf dem Schnee