Eginhard
Eginhard is a male name. Related forms are Einhart , Einhard and Einert .
origin
The names formed with Egin- are derived from the Germanic * agi- ("fear", "horror"). The second part of the name is the old high German harti, herti ("hard", "strong", "strong").
Name bearer
- Eginhard von Barfus (1825–1909), German author of adventure novels
- Eginhard Peters (1932–2014), German meteorologist and politician
- Eginhard Friedrich Petersen (1834–1909), German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor at Lübeck Cathedral
- Eginhard Schlachta (1919–1996), German politician of the GB / BHE
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Duden - Lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of over 8000 first names. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin 2014, p. 119.