Hartnick

Hartnick is a German family name of Slavic origin. Its main distribution is in Niederlausitz near Cottbus . According to the Polish name researcher Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch , the name was also previously detectable in Silesia ( Breslau ). The base hard comes from hardness, endurance or hartować - hardening . Alternatively, it could come from the first name Artym . With the suffix -nik (or in German : -nick ) the name means someone who is tough / tough .

According to Max Gottschald's book “Die deutschen Personalennamen”, however, the following interpretation is also possible: Hartnick was reinterpreted from the German first name Hartwig into Slavonic pronunciation.

Name bearer

• Evelyn Hartnick-Geismeier (1931–2017), German sculptor
• Hans-Joachim Hartnick (* 1955), German road cyclist and trainer
• Lyndon Hartnick (* 1986), South African rugby union player

See also

• Hartnik
• Hartnig

Web links

• Distribution of the name Hartnick
• Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN, Kraków (Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Gottschald: The German personal names . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-136701-9 ( google.de [accessed on October 7, 2019]).