Ewald

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Ewald , with the (rare) variants Ewalt , Ewaldt and Evald , is an old German male given name that is also used as a family name today.

Origin and meaning

The name is, like many other old German first names, a two-part personal name, from the old high German noun ewa with the basic meaning 'law, law, order' and the also old high German verb waltan with the meaning walten , (govern), rule, guard .

distribution

Ewald came up as a saint name in the early Middle Ages ; it was the name of the two Ewaldi brothers , two Anglo-Saxon missionaries who, according to legend , were slain near Aplerbeck in the 7th century .

The name was initially only widespread in the areas of worship of the two saints, namely in Westphalia , in the Rhineland and (in the form of Ewout ) in adjacent parts of the Netherlands . It was not used in the whole of German-speaking countries until the 18th century .

name day

Usually on October 3rd, as was originally the case in the dioceses of Paderborn and Münster; in Cologne but on October 22nd.

variants

  • Evaldas , Lithuanian
  • Evald, Russian
  • Ēvalds, Latvian

Name bearer

First name

such as

  • Schwarzer Ewald and Weißer Ewald , English missionaries and martyrs, see the Ewaldi brothers

family name

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G

  • Georg Ewald (1926–1973), German politician (SED)
  • Gerhard Ewald (1927–1997), German art historian
  • Gottfried Ewald (1888–1963), German psychiatrist and university professor
  • Günter Ewald (1929–2015), German mathematician and university professor
  • Gustav Ewald (1895–1983), German entrepreneur and technology historian

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K

  • Karl Ewald (Danish Carl Ewald ; 1856–1908), Danish writer
  • Klaus Ewald (* 1941), Swiss geographer and university professor

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  • Ludwig Ewald (1813–1881), German civil servant and politician

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Individual evidence

  1. Cf. G. Köbler: Old High German Dictionary, 1993. Online version; Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / homepage.uibk.ac.at

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