Dionysius
Dionysios or Dionysius , German short form also Dionys , is a male Greek given name .
Origin and meaning
It is one of the consecrated names common in ancient Greece, which place the born directly under the protection of a god, in this case Dionysus (see Demetrios <Demeter; Apollonios <Apollon; Aphrodisios <Aphrodite). The name therefore means "the Dionysian, the consecrated to Dionysus".
variants
Modern versions of the name include, among others, French Denys or Denis (female form Denise ), Engl. Dennis , it. Dionigi , Spanish Dionisio , Portuguese Dinis or Diniz , Hungarian Dénes and Frisian Nys (also Nyss, Nyß, Nis, Niss or Niß, hence the family name Nyssen or Nissen).
Name bearer
(in ascending order of time):
- Dionysius von Kolophon , Greek painter of the 5th century BC. Chr.
- Dionysius I of Syracuse , tyrant (430–367 BC)
- Dionysius II of Syracuse , tyrant (367–344 BC)
- Dionysius of Herakleia (around 360 BC to 305 BC)
- Dionysius of Chalcedon (around 350 BC), philosopher
- Dionysios Metathemenos (4th and 3rd centuries BC), disciple of Zenon
- Dionysios Iambos (around 250 BC), Alexandrian grammarian
- Dionysius of Alexandria (astronomer) (3rd century BC), Alexandrian astronomer
- Dionysius (envoy) (3rd century BC), envoy of Ptolemy II to India
- Dionysios Skytobrachion (leather arm), Alexandrian mythographer (≈ 200 BC)
- Dionysios Thrax (the Thracian) (about 180/170 to about 90 BC), Greek grammarian
- Dionysios Petosarapis (2nd century BC), Egyptian philosopher and leader of an uprising approx. 168–64 BC. Chr.
- Dionysios , Indo-Greek king (≈ 50 BC)
- Dionysios of Halicarnassus , Greek scholar (1st century BC)
- Dionysios of Heliopolis , Greek fortune teller and interpreter of dreams
- Dionysius , Greek epic poet and author of the Bassarica
- Dionysius Areopagita , second bishop of Athens in the 1st century
- Dionysius of Byzantium , Greek geographer of the 2nd century AD
- Dionysios Periegetes , wrote a description of the world as a poem (around 124)
- Dionysius of Corinth (around 170 / 2nd century)
- Dionysius of Vienne († 193), Bishop of Vienne
- Dionysius of Alexandria (around 180-264), Bishop of Alexandria
- Dionysius of Augsburg , also: Zosimus , the legendary first bishop of Augsburg, was considered the uncle of the holy Afra of Augsburg
- Dionysius of Paris (Saint Denis), Bishop of Paris, martyr († after 250), one of the fourteen helpers in need with his severed head in hand
- Dionysius (Bishop of Rome) († 268), Bishop of Rome (259–268)
- Dionysius of Milan († between 355 and 375), Bishop of Milan
- Dionysius Exiguus (around 470-540), a Dacian monk, to which parts of the Christian era go back
- Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita (around 500), theologian who pretends to be the Areopagite converted by Paul
- Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell Mahre , a chronicler who wrote in the 8th century, whose work was erroneously attributed to Dionysius of Tell Mahre
- Dionysius von Tell Mahre (773–845), a former head of the Syriac-Jacobite Church
- Dionysius bar Salibi (1171)
- Dionysius of Melatia († after 1259), Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
- Dionysius (Portugal) (1261–1325), King of Portugal (Dom Dinis)
- Dionysius of Montina (14th century)
- Dionysius the Carthusian (also: D. Rijckel , D. Leeuwen; 1402–1471)
- Dionysius of Zakynthos , Archbishop of Aegina († 1622)
- Dionysius a Navitate Domini (1600–1638), Franco-Portuguese Carmelite priest and martyr, real name Pierre Berthelot
- Dionysius von Werl (1640–1709)
- Dionysius of Luxembourg (1652–1703)
- Christoph Dionysius von Seeger (1740–1808), one of the earliest teachers and main organizer of the High Charles School
- Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), Irish physicist, mathematician and encyclopaedist
- Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot , maiden name of Dion Boucicault (1820–1890), Irish-American playwright, writer and actor
- Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857), Greek poet
- Dionysios Lavrangas (1860–1941), Greek violinist, conductor and composer