Cornelius
Cornelius , also Kornelius , is a male given name and family name .
meaning
“The one belonging to the ancient Roman family of Cornelier ”, whereby the name of the family is not interpreted.
variants
- German: Kornelius, Corni, Corny , Conny, Neli, Nelli . In other languages:
- English: Correl
- French: Cornélius, Corneille
- Italian: Cornelio, Nello
- Lithuanian: Kornelijus
- Dutch: Cornelis , Kornelis, Cees , Kees, Corneel, Korneel, Nelis, Cor
- Polish: Korneliusz, Kornel
- Portuguese: Cornélio
- Romanian: Corneliu
- Spanish: Cornelio
- Hungarian: Kornél
name day
September 16 and November 16
Name bearer
First name
- Cornelius , name of one of the most respected Roman patrician families, see Cornelier
- Cornelius (Prosecutor) , Roman Prosecutor
- Cornelius (Antioch) († around 151), Bishop of Antioch
- Cornelius (Bishop of Rome) , (251–253)
- Cornelius Nepos , Roman writer
- Captain Kornelius , key figure in Christian missionary history
- Cornelius Becker (1561–1604), German theologian and hymn poet
- Cornelius a Lapide (SJ) (1567-1637), theologian
- Cornelius Paulinus Swanenburg (1574–1630), Dutch legal scholar
- Cornelis de Graeff (1599–1664), Dutch regent from the Golden Age
- Cornelius de Greiff (1781–1863), German silk manufacturer and patron
- Cornelius Bickel (* 1945), German sociologist
- Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), French social philosopher
- Cornelius Dane (1960-2004), German actor
- Cornelius Hauptmann (* 1951), German singer (bass)
- Cornelius Häußermann (* 1958 or 1959), German cantor and organist
- Cornelius Johnson (1913-1946), American athlete
- Cornelius Johnson ( American football player ) (born 1943), American football player
- Cornelius Meister (* 1980), German general music director
- Cornelius Osten (also Cornelio Osten ; 1863–1936), German businessman and botanist
- Cornelio Sommaruga (* 1932), Swiss lawyer and President of the ICRC
- Cornelius Weiss (* 1933), German politician
such as:
- Cornelius I. (rhinoceros) , rhinoceros and Canadian "party leader"
family name
- Aloys Cornelius (1748–1800), German painter
- Don Cornelius (1936–2012), American television producer and presenter
- Andreas Cornelius (* 1993), Danish football player
- Auguste Cornelius (1826-1891), German writer
- Carl Cornelius (1793–1843), German actor
- Carl Adolph Cornelius (1819–1903), German historian and church historian
- Carl Maria Cornelius (1868–1945), German art historian and writer
- Corky Cornelius (1914–1943), American jazz trumpeter
- Dean Cornelius (* 2001), Scottish football player
- Don Cornelius (1936–2012), American television producer and presenter
- Ernst-August Cornelius (1898–1983), German professor of mechanical engineering
- Friedrich August Wilhelm Cornelius (1817–1885), German administrative officer
- Friedrich Cornelius (1893–1976), German ancient historian
- Hans Cornelius (1863–1947), German philosopher, psychologist and educator
- Hans Peter Cornelius (1888–1950), German geologist
- Heinrich Cornelius, called Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535), German polymath, theologian, lawyer, doctor and philosopher
- Helen Cornelius (* 1941), American country singer
- Henry Cornelius (judge) (1855–1941), German judge
- Henry Cornelius (Director) (1913–1958), South African-British film director, screenwriter, film producer and film editor
- Hermann Cornelius (1898–1945), German machinist, communist and resistance fighter
- Ignaz Cornelius (1764–1806), German engraver and actor
- Ingeborg Cornelius (* 1930), Austrian actress
- Jan Cornelius (writer) (* 1950), Romanian-German writer and publicist
- Jan Cornelius (songwriter) (born 1953), German songwriter
- Joachim Cornelius (1934–2012), German politician (SPD)
- Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh (* 1957), German Protestant theologian and regional bishop of the Baden regional church
- Josef Cornelius (poet) (1849–1943), German dialect poet
- Josef Gerhard Cornelius (1783–1843), German actor and theater director
- Jürn Cornelius (* 1957), German musician, composer, actor and producer
- Karl Cornelius (1868–1938), German architect
- Karl Sebastian Cornelius (1819-1896), German physicist
- Kurt Cornelius (1893–1966), German politician (CDU)
- Lambert Cornelius (1778–1823), German painter and drawing teacher
- Marta Cornelius-Furlani (1886–1974), Austrian geologist
- Otto Cornelius (1896–1984), German painter, graphic artist and art teacher
- Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867), German painter
- Peter Cornelius (composer) (1824–1874), German composer
- Peter Cornelius (singer) , Danish opera singer (tenor)
- Peter Cornelius (1905–1988), German actor, see Curt Ackermann
- Peter Cornelius (photographer) (1913–1970), German photographer and photojournalist
- Peter Cornelius (singer-songwriter) (* 1951), Austrian pop singer
- Patrick Cornelius (* 1978), American jazz musician
- Reiner Cornelius (* 1926), German painter and writer
- Reinhardt O. Cornelius-Hahn (* 1947), German writer and publisher
- Robert Cornelius (1809–1893), American pioneer of photography
- Stefan Kornelius (* 1965), German journalist
- Thomas Cornelius (* 1986), German composer, organist and conductor
- Tiffany Cornelius (* 1989), Luxembourgish tennis player
- Ulrich Cornelius († 1464), German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- Viktorin Kornel ze Všehrd (Victorinus Cornelius; 1460–1520), Czech writer, lawyer, master of the university and dean of the Prague University
- Wilhelm Cornelius (writer) (1809– ??), German writer and bookseller
- Wilhelm Cornelius (engineer) (1915–1996), German engineer and inventor
stage name
- Cornelius (aka Keigo Oyamada, * 1969), Japanese pop musician and music producer
Fictional characters
- Cornelius Relegatus , the "lost Cornelius"
- Jerry Cornelius , SF hero of Michael Moorcock
- Cornelius Fudge , Minister for Magic in the Harry Potter series of novels by Joanne K. Rowling
Web links
Commons : Cornelius (first name) - collection of images, videos and audio files
See also
- Cornelius and Cyprian Church
- Cornelius Prize , art prize for fine arts (the city of Düsseldorf donated it in 1936, named it after Peter von Cornelius)
- Cornelia