Basil
Basil is a Latin male given name . It is a Latinization of the Greek name Βasileios (Βασίλειος) meaning “the royal one”. In Germany , the first name Basil has been documented since the 12th century. Nowadays, the short form Basil is mainly used in German-speaking countries .
The English form of this name is Basil , the French Basile , the Italian and Spanish Basilio , the Modern Greek Vasilios and the Russian Wassili . In the Rhaeto-Romanic language area there is the variant Baseli.
Well-known namesake
- Basil the Great (4th century), Doctor of the Church
- Basil of Ancyra (4th century), theologian
- Flavius Caecina Decius Basilius , Roman politician, consul in 463 AD
- Basilius (Bagaudenführer) (5th century), late Roman rebel in Hispania
- Basil of Seleucia in Isauria († after 468), metropolitan and biographer of St. Thekla from Iconium
- Basil I the Macedonians (around 812–886), Byzantine emperor
- Basil (Jerusalem) , Patriarch of Jerusalem (c. 821 to c. 839)
- Basil Chalkocheir ("copper hand"; † around 932), Byzantine usurper against Emperor Romanos I.
- Basil Peteinus († after March 961), Byzantine aristocrat and conspirator against Emperor Romanos II.
- Basil II (958-1025), Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
- Basileios Scleros (* around 980, † after 1033), Byzantine patrician and rebel against Emperor Constantine VIII.
- Basil II Kamateros , Patriarch of Constantinople (1183–1186)
- Basil Chotzas († after 1205), Byzantine rebel against Emperor Isaac II.
- Basil Comnenus († 1340), Emperor and Grand Comnene of Trebizond
- Basileios or Basilius, baptismal name of Cardinal Bessarion (around 1403–1472), Byzantine theologian and humanist
- Basil the Blessed (1468–1552), Russian saint
- Basilius Monner (also: Basilius Vimariensis, Regulus Selinus; around 1500–1566), German legal scholar
- Basilius Besler (also Basil Besler; 1561–1629), German pharmacist, botanist and publisher
- Basilius Petritz (1647–1715), Kreuzkantor in Dresden from 1694 to 1713
- Basilius von Ramdohr (1757–1822), lawyer, journalist, writer and diplomat
See also
- Wiktionary: Basilius - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Basileus , title of Greek ruler
- Basilio , disambiguation
- Basil's anaphora , early ecclesiastical Eucharistic prayer
- St. Basil's Cathedral , the unofficial name of the Cathedral of the Protection and Intercession of the Virgin Mary on the Moat in Moscow
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke : Historical German first name book. Vol. 1, AE . De Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-11-014445-X , p. 255.
- ↑ a b c Duden. The great first name dictionary . Third, completely revised edition, Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 , p. 75.
- ↑ Male first names of the population by year of birth, Switzerland and language areas, 2016, DE. Swiss Federal Statistical Office, August 21, 2017, accessed on November 21, 2017 .