Hinz and Kunz
Hinz and Kunz (short forms of the names Heinrich and Konrad ) is a German idiom and synonym for everyone . In the maritime , the designation Janmaat usual.
In the High Middle Ages , specifically from the 11th to the 13th century, Heinrich (short form: Hinz ) and Konrad (short form: Kunz ) were the names of numerous German rulers, after whom the common people named their children. A large part of the men therefore bore these names, and inflation resulted, from which the phrase that is still used today was ultimately formed. The term has been used since the 13th century, and was used as a derision from around the 15th century and is used in the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin and in the novella Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist .
Hinz and Kunz is the title of a poem by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . In Hamburg in 1993 was in line with this, the environment and homeless newspaper Hinz & Kunzt .
In the early 20th century there was the tobacco brand Hinz & Kunz of the tobacco factory M. u. F. Liebhold in Heidelberg .
Corresponding expressions in other languages are:
- Tom, Dick and Harry - in English
- Fulano, Zutano y Mengano - in Spanish
- Pierre, Paul ou Jacques - in French
- Jan en alleman - in Dutch
- Tizio, Caio e Sempronio - in Italian
- Fulano, Beltrano e Cicrano - in Portuguese
- Pérez i Pujol - in Catalan
- Ivanov, Petrow, Sidorow ( Иванов, Петров, Сидоров ) - in Russian
- Âre, Ure, Šamsi Kure - in Persian
- Gud og hvermann - in Norwegian
- Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström - in Swedish
- Kull man habba wa-dabba (كل من هبّ ودبّ) - in Arabic
- Fulān wa-ʿIllān (فلان وعلان) - in Arabic
- Era Ghera, Nathu, Khera ( ایرا غیرہ نتھو خیرا) - in Urdu / Hindi
- Phalana Dhingra - in Panjabi
- Nodaai Bhodaai - in Assamese
- ā māo ā gǒu ( 阿貓阿狗 / 阿猫阿狗 ) - in Chinese (literally: "cat and dog")
- Zhāng sān Lǐ sì ( 張三李四 ) - in Chinese (Zhāng and Lǐ are common family names, while三 and四 are the numbers three and four.)
- neko mo shakushi mo (猫 も 杓 子 も ) - in Japanese (literally: "cats and also ladles")
- Suljo i Puljo ( Сульо и Пульо ) - in Bulgarian
- Filani dhe Pishmani - in Albanian
- Ali ile Veli - in Turkish
- Jann a Mann - (also: Jenni a Menni ) in Luxembourgish
- Pera, Mika i Žika - in Serbian
- Hemu kes - in Kurdish
- Chaim Jankl ( חיים יענקל) - in Yiddish
See also
- John Doe
- Normal consumer , Lieschen Müller and Markus Possible
- Mustermann
- The comic anthology Hinz & Kunz of the Volksverlag
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kunz. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873, Sp. 2746 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ^ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Hinz and Kunz on Wikisource