Humbert
Humbert is a male given name and a family name .
Origin and meaning
The name Humbert goes back to the Old High German male name Hunbert ( hunj = young animal, young bear and beraht = shiny).
variants
- Humprecht
- Humbertus
- Humberto ( Portuguese , Spanish )
- Umberto ( Italian )
name day
March 3 (Memorial Day of Humbert III of Savoy)
Name bearer
First name
Middle Ages (historically ordered)
- Humbert († 842), Bishop of Würzburg (832–842), see Hunbert
- Humbert I (Savoy) (1003-1048; called: Humbert with the white hands), Count of Savoy
- Humbert von Silva Candida (also Humbert von Moyenmoutier; around 1010-1061), Catholic cardinal and Benedictine
- Humbert (Bremen) , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen from 1101 to 1104
- Humbert de Grammont († 1135), Bishop of Geneva from 1119/20 to 1135
- Humbert III. (Savoyen) ("the saint"; * around 1120, † 1189), Count of Savoy, 1838 beatified
- Humbert III. (Beaujeu) († around 1192), Lord of Beaujeu
- Humbert V. (Beaujeu) (1189–1250), Lord of Beaujeu and Connétable of France
- Humbert I (Viennois) (Humbert I de La Tour-du-Pin; around 1240–1307), Seigneur de La Tour-du-Pin, later Dauphin of Viennois
- Humbert II. (Viennois) (1312–1355), from 1333 to 1349 Dauphin von Viennois
- Humbert of Neuchâtel († 1417), Bishop of Basel from 1395 to 1417
Modern times (in alphabetical order)
- Humbert Achamer-Pifrader (1900–1945), Austrian SS standard leader
- Humbert Balsan (1954-2005), French film producer
- Humprecht Johann Czernin von Chudenitz (1628–1682), diplomat in the service of Emperor Leopold I and art collector
- Humbert Dell'mour (1881–1948), Austrian poet and linguist
- Humbert Fink (1933–1992), Austrian writer and journalist
- Humbertus Guilelmus de Precipiano (1627–1711), Abbot of Bellevaux and Archbishop of Mechelen
family name
- Agnès Humbert (1894–1963), French art historian resistance fighter
- Abraham von Humbert (1689–1761), German mathematician, geographer, engineer and officer
- Aimé Humbert-Droz (1819–1900), Swiss politician
- Amédor Humbert-Droz (1798–1865), Swiss politician
- Ashley Humbert (* 1982), Australian cyclist
- Carl Philipp Humbert (1829–1867), German district administrator
- Charles Humbert (1891–1958), Swiss painter
- Claas Hugo Humbert (1830–1904), German Romanist
- Claude-Alain Humbert (1955–2014), Swiss author
- Fernand Humbert (1842–1934), French painter
- Friedrich Humbert (1887–1941), German politician (SPD)
- Georg Humbert (1839–1898), German politician
- Georges Humbert (1859–1921), French mathematician
- Georges Louis Humbert (1862–1921), French general
- Gustav Humbert (* 1950), German manager
- Gustave Amédée Humbert (1822-1894), French politician and lawyer
- Jacqueline Humbert (* 1952), American singer and set designer
- Jean Humbert (politician) (1798–1865), Swiss politician
- Jean Humbert (philologist) (1901–1980), French Graecist
- Jean-Henri Humbert (1887–1967), French botanist
- Jean Joseph Amable Humbert (1767–1823), French general
- Jean Louis Humbert (1895–1975), French general
- Jean Paul Humbert (1766–1831), German entrepreneur and politician
- Jenny Humbert-Droz (née Perret; 1892–2000), Swiss women's rights activist and author
- Josep Barberà i Humbert (1874–1947), Catalan composer and music teacher
- Jules Humbert-Droz (1891–1971), Swiss pastor and journalist
- Julien Humbert (* 1984), French football player
- Marie-Thérèse Humbert (* 1940), Mauritian writer
- Nicole Humbert (born Nicole Rieger; * 1972), German athlete
- Pierre Humbert (publisher) (around 1680–1758), French publisher
- Pierre Humbert (architect) (1848–1919), French architect
- Pierre Humbert (mathematician) (1891–1953), French mathematician
- Roger Humbert (* 1929), Swiss artist and photographer
- Ugo Humbert (* 1998), French tennis player
- Vincent Humbert (1981-2003), French victim and author
Fictional character
- Humbert Humbert , male protagonist in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita and its film adaptations
See also
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- ^ Given names, names days lexicon , accessed on November 10, 2017