Enoch
Enoch is a male name.
Origin and meaning
Hebrew origin חנוך Chanoch becomes Enoch or Enoch (perhaps a follower (of God) or initiation ). Two people in the Tanakh bear this name, the better known of them is the Patriarch Enoch .
Name bearer
people
- (H) Enoch (before the Flood AD) biblical figureחנוך
- Enoch von Ascoli (around 1400 – around 1457), humanistic teacher and manuscript seeker
- Enoch Brunschweiler (1760–1834), Swiss entrepreneur
- Enoch W. Eastman (1810-1885), American politician
- Enoch Gläser (1628–1668), German lawyer and pastoral poet of the Baroque period
- Enoch zu Guttenberg (1946–2018), German conductor
- Enoch L. Johnson (1883–1968), American politician
- Enoch Derant Lakoué (* 1945), Central African politician
- Enoch Light (1905–1978), American classical violinist, band leader, producer and sound engineer
- Enoch Lincoln (1788–1829), American politician (Democratic Republican Party)
- Enoch Louis Lowe (1820-1892), American politician
- Enoch Pöckel (1578–1627), council member and council builder in Leipzig and Hammerherr in the Ore Mountains
- Enoch Poor (1736–1780), shipbuilder and trader; Brigadier General in the Continental Army
- Enoch Powell (1912-1998), British politician
- Enoch Seeman (around 1694–1744 / 45), painter
- Enoch Svantenius (theologian) (1576–1624), German clergyman
- Enoch Svantenius (the Elder) (also Enoch Schwante ; 1618–1674), German theologian
- Enoch Svantenius (the Younger) (also Enoch Schwante ; 1652–1717), German educator and poet
- Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (1872 / 73–1905), South African mission teacher and composer of the political song "Nkosi Sikelel 'iAfrika"
- Enoch Thorsgard (1917-2015), American rancher and politician (Republican Party)
- Enoch West (1886-1965), English football player
- Enoch Widmann (1551–1615), historian and rector of the Hof high school
- Christian Enoch Wiesener (1798–1861), German clergyman and poet
- Enoch Zander (1873–1957), German zoologist and beekeeper
Fictional character
- Enoch Soames , protagonist and title of a short story by Max Beerbohm
- Enoch Root, a minor character in the novel Cryptonomicon by the writer Neal Stephenson , who also plays an important role in Stephenson's Baroque cycle
- Enoch Lenght, protagonist in several novels by the American author duo Preston / Child
Individual proof
- ^ Enoch and Lexicon for Theology and the Church , article Henoch