Helge
Helge is a male and female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Helge comes from Scandinavia . The name is attested as old Swedish Hælghe , Helghe , old Danish Helghi , old Norwegian and old Icelandic Helgi as early as the Middle Ages. It is the weak inflected form of the adjective, sacred, inviolable '(Old Swedish helagher , halagher , Old Icelandic heilagr < proto-Germanic * hailaga- ). In the Nordic world of legends there is the figure of Helgi .
The form borrowed from the East Slavic is Oleg .
variants
female form
Name bearer
First name
- Helge Auleb (1887–1964), German officer
- Helge Bofinger (1940–2018), German architect
- Helge Reinhold Braun (* 1972), German politician (CDU)
- Helge Breloer (1937–2011), German expert, lawyer and non-fiction author
- Helge Burggrabe (* 1973), German composer and recorder player
- Helge Fröschle (* 1976), German handball player
- Helge Haas (* 1961), German journalist and television presenter
- Helge Häger (1938–2003), German combine director and politician (GDR)
- Helge Janßen (* 1939), German author
- Helge Karch (* 1953), German microbiologist
- Helge von Koch (1870–1924), Swedish mathematician
- Helge Limburg (* 1982), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Helge Lindh (* 1976), German politician (SPD)
- Helge Meeuw (* 1984), German swimming athlete
- Helge André Njåstad (* 1980), Norwegian politician
- Helge Orten (* 1966), Norwegian politician
- Helge Payer (* 1979), Austrian soccer player
- Helge Peukert (* 1956), German economist and political scientist and university professor
- Helge Pross (1927–1984), German sociologist
- Helge Klaus Rieder (* 1957), German university professor for business informatics
- Helge Rosvænge (1897–1972), Danish tenor
- Helge Schneider (* 1955), German author, musician, actor and comedian
- Helge Stadelmann (* 1952), German evangelical theologian
- Helge Thun (* 1971), German magician and television presenter
- Helge Timmerberg (* 1952), German journalist and author
family name
- Georg Helge (1910–2001), German actor
- Henrik Helge (* 1947), German actor
- Ladislav Helge (1927–2016), Czech film director and screenwriter
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helge (male) on www.vornamen-weltweit.de
- ↑ Helge (mostly male) on www.vornamen-weltweit.de
- ↑ Assar Janzen: De fornvästnordiska personnamnen. In: Assar Janzén (ed.): Personnavne (= Nordisk Kultur 7). Stockholm, Oslo and København 1947, p. 53.