Humboldt
Humboldt is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
Humboldt):
- Family names derived from the same German first names (hun + bald) .
- Occasional nicknames for mhd. Humpolt > a grain measure <or to mnd. humbolt "some kind of bad flax".
Name bearer
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German naturalist and explorer
- Alexander von Humboldt (Lieutenant General) (1858–1942), German Lieutenant General
- Alexander von Humboldt (SA member) (1886–1940), German SA leader
- Alexander Georg von Humboldt (1720–1779), Prussian officer and entrepreneur
- Bernhard von Humboldt (1863–1934), major general
- Caroline von Humboldt (born von Dacheröden ; 1766–1829), wife of Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Gabriele von Humboldt , maiden name of Gabriele von Bülow (1802–1887), daughter of Caroline and Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Gustav Humboldt (1860 – after 1929), German publisher
- Hans Paul von Humboldt-Dachroeden (1857–1940), German diplomat
- Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt (born Colomb ; 1741–1796), mother of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Ralf Humboldt (* 1956), German soccer player
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), German statesman, linguist and educational reformer, brother of Alexander von Humboldt
Noble family
Industrial company
- Maschinenbauanstalt Humboldt founded in 1871 as Maschinenbau AG Humboldt, locomotive construction from 1896, merged with Klöckner-Werke from 1925 to 1938 .
- Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG Manufacturer of internal combustion engines and land vehicles , successor to the aforementioned Humboldt mechanical engineering company
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosa Kohlheim (edit.): Duden, family names. Origin and meaning of 20,000 surnames . Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2 , p. 343.