Feyer evening
Feyerabend or Feyerabent is a family name.
origin
The name was first mentioned in documents in the 13th century in southern Germany and Switzerland. The term "vîr-âbent" was first used in the High Middle Ages as a nickname for a person who was born on the eve of a public holiday, and as such was passed on to their children.
etymology
From the Latin word “fēria” for a weekday or church holiday, the Old High German “fîra” developed with the meaning of feast or rest (in Christian parlance above all a day that was celebrated with an act of worship).
This became Middle High German "vîre" for a festive day or the rest of the work (from which the New High German term "celebration" developed), whereby since the 12th century "vîr-âbent" has referred to the eve of a public holiday.
This term is later reinterpreted in early New High German (after the 16th century) under the influence of the language of the craftsmen to "(beginning of) the rest period in the evening".
Notation
From the 14th to the 16th century alone, there are hundreds of different ways of writing the name. The forms commonly used today, "Feierabend" (around 2/3 of the name bearers) and "Feyerabend" (almost 1/3 of the name bearers in Germany) have only developed since the early modern era and were initially interchangeable.
Well-known namesake
A.
- Adolf Feyerabend (1842-1891), German politician, member of the Württemberg parliament
- Augustin Feyerabend (1744–1790), Swiss painter
C.
- Christian Feyerabend (1629–1696), mayor of Königsberg
D.
- David Jakob Feyerabend (1531–1618), mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn
E.
- Erich Feyerabend (1889–1945), German graphic artist, painter, draftsman
- Ernst Feyerabend (1867–1943), State Secretary for Telecommunications 1926–1933
F.
- Franz Feyerabend (1755–1800), Swiss painter
- Friedrich August Feyerabend (1809–1882), German politician, mayor of Heiligenbeil, member of the Prussian National Assembly
- Friedrich Ernst Feyerabend (1779–1834), German politician, mayor of Heiligenbeil
G
- Georg Heinrich Feyerabend (1640–1685), Mayor of Heilbronn 1680–1685
- Gerhard Feyerabend (1898–1965), German general and Knight's Cross holder (World War II)
- Gottlieb Feyerabend , student of Immanuel Kant , to whom we owe the transcripts of his natural law lecture from 1784
H
- Holm Feyerabend (* 1970), German basketball player
I.
- Isaac Feyerabend (1654–1724), Mayor of Elbing 1703–1724
J
- Jakob Feyerabend (1551–1618), Mayor of Heilbronn 1604–1614
- Johann Feyerabend (publisher) (1550–1599), German printer and publisher
- Johann David Feyerabend (1643–1716), German politician, mayor of Heilbronn
- Johann Rudolf Feyerabend (1779–1814), Swiss painter
- Joseph Feyerabend (1493–1543), dean of Ansbach's Gumbertus pen, provost of Feuchtwangen
K
- Kurt Feyerabend (1885–1939), German architect
L.
- Lucas Feyerabend (1687–1741), Swiss carpenter and sculptor
- Ludwig Feyerabend (1855–1927), German prehistoric, director of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Görlitz
M.
- Markus Feyerabend (* 1971), German glider aerobatic pilot
- Maurus Feyerabend (1754–1818), historian and last monastery prior of the Ottobeuren Benedictine monastery
N
- Nicolaus Feyerabend (around 1400), builder of the Marienburg Nogat Bridge
O
- Oswald Friedrich Feyerabend (1809–1872), German pastor in Auras und Stroppen , politician, mayor of Auras and father of Ludwig Feyerabend
P
- Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), Austrian philosopher and science theorist
- Placidus Feyerabend (1754–1855), Benedictine, musician and composer
S.
- Sigmund Feyerabend (1528–1590), German printer and publisher
- Stefan Feyerabend (1932–2018), German paper specialist
- Stephan Feyerabend (1523–1574), Syndic of the city of Heilbronn, biographer Götz von Berlichingens
W.
- Walter Feyerabend (1891–1962), German equestrian (Olympia 1928) and general (Second World War)