Beatrice
Beatrice is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
The name originally comes from Occitan , but has spread mainly through Italian . Meanwhile there is also the neo-Latin education Beatrix . The name means "the blissful". The French form is Béatrice . The Spanish and Portuguese forms are Beatrice .
The popularity of the name goes back to a figure from the works of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri : In Vita Nuova he reports for the first time about a Beatrice who died early (see Beatrice Portinari ), whom he met as a young woman in Florence. Later, Beatrice reappears as the narrator's guide at the end of purgatory and through paradise in Dante's Divine Comedy - in keeping with her name ("Beatified"). Even before that, she had asked the poet Virgil to rescue the narrator from the dark forest in which he had lost his way and to accompany him through hell and purgatory. Whether Beatrice really existed or is just a figure of poetry remains unclear.
Metaphorically (and sometimes jokingly) a guide is called Beatrice , while a very talkative guide is called Cicerone . In literature , Beatrice can also be used metaphorically to mean an unreachable lover.
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Well-known namesake
- Beatrice Arthur (1922–2009), American actress
- Beatrice Babin (* 1964), a German film editor
- Beatrice Cenci (1577–1599), Roman patrician
- Beatrice Dovsky (1866–1923), Austrian poet, writer and actress
- Beatrice Egli (* 1988), Swiss pop singer
- Beatrice de Frangepan (* 1480; † approx. March 27, 1510), by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland (1857–1944), British princess
- Beatrice Hastings (1879–1943), British poet, journalist and art critic
- Beatrice Kaufman (1895–1945), American editor and playwright
- Beatrice Lillie (1894–1989), Canadian film and stage actress
- Beatrice Minda (* 1968), German photo artist
- Beatrice Portinari , alleged companion of Dante Alighieri in the Divina Comedia
- Beatrice Richter (* 1948), German actress
- Beatrice of Savoy (in Czech Betrice Savojská; around 1310–1331); third wife of Heinrich von Kärnten (Czech Jindřich Korutanský)
- Beatrice Sonntag (* 1979), German travel writer
- Beatrice Straight (1914–2001), American actress
- Beatrice Thomas (* 1984), German funk and soul singer
- Beatrice Utondu (* 1969), Nigerian athlete, specialty disciplines 100-meter run and long jump
- Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), English sociologist
- Beatrice Weder di Mauro (* 1965), Swiss-Italian economist
- Beatrice of York (* 1988), English princess, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Beatrice Zade (1875–1948), Swedish writer
Intermediate name
- Rosalie Beatrice Ruth Scherzer, maiden name of Rose Ausländer (1901–1988), German poet
family name
- Chris Beatrice (* 19 **), American game developer
variants
Bea, Beate , Beatrijs, Beatrix , Trise, Trici, Trix, Trixi, Triple, Triss
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Anton Hellmann: As an altar boy through the church year . Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1984, ISBN 3-451-20273-5 .