Isidore (first name)

Isidore is a male name .

Origin and meaning

The name Isidor comes etymologically from the Hellenistic Greek and is composed of the name of the Egyptian goddess Isis and the Greek word "δῶρον" ( doron ), German "gift", ie "gift of Isis". The name is thus a typical theophore , a name of religious origin, like the similar Greek names Theodor and Dorothea , the Hebrew names Matthias / Matthäus , Jonathan and Nathan (iel), the Latin name Donata and the Slavic name Bogdan .

distribution

The name has been used in Christian terms since St. Isidoros of Chios († 251, martyr) and Isidore of Seville (around 560–636), the great scribe of the Middle Ages (see Old High German Isidor and the forgery Pseudoisidor ). In Romansh it was particularly popular because of the patron saint of Madrid, Isidore the Farmer (1070–1130, canonized 1622), and thus frequent from the Baroque onwards .

name day

The name day is celebrated:

• April 4 , according to Isidore of Seville ( non-mandatory day of remembrance in the general Roman calendar )
• May 15th , after Isidore of Madrid

variants

The feminine form of the given name is Isidora . Internationally there are the following variants:

• Isidore ( English )
• Isidore ( French )
• Isidoros ( Greek )
• Isidoro ( Italian )
• Isidorus, Isidorius ( Latin )
• Isidoro, Isidro ( Spanish )

Name bearer

Einname (all forms)

• Isidoros of Charax (? Around the time), Greek geographer
• Isidorus of Chios († 251), saint and martyr
• Isidore of Pelusium (? Around 360–451), theologian and ascetic
• Isidore von Milet (442-537), Greek architect, physicist and mathematician
• Isidore (philosopher) (? Between 445-526), ​​late antique philosopher
• Isidore of Seville (around 560–636), saint, scholar and bishop; named after him Isidorus (moon crater)
• Isidore of Madrid (around 1070–1130), saint and miracle worker, patron of the city of Madrid
• Isidore of Kiev / Thessaloniki (? Around 1380–1463), Greek church politician
• Isidorus (Patriarch) (1347-1350), Patriarch of Constantinople

Isidore (including Latin, Greek and romanization)

• Isidor Alfred Amreich (1885–1972), Austrian gynecologist
• Isidor Markowitsch Annenski (1906–1977), Soviet director
• Isidor Bakanja (1887–1909), African blessed
• Isidor Baumann (* 1955), Swiss politician
• Isidore Canevale (1730–1786), Austrian architect
• Isidor Dannström (1812–1897), Swedish composer
• Isidor Didion (1798–1878), French general
• Isidor Markus Emanuel (1905–1991), German bishop
• Isidor Feilchenfeld (1857–1901), German-Baltic writer and journalist
• Isidor Fisch (1905–1934), German emigrant, business partner of Bruno Hauptmann
• Isidor Fischer (1868–1943), Austrian gynecologist and medical historian
• Isidor Früh (1922–2002), German politician
• Isidor Gansl (1896–1938), Austrian football player
• Isidor Gistl (1868–1950), German manufacturer
• Isidor Grießner (1906–1983), Austrian politician
• Isidor Emanuilowitsch Gukowski (1871–1921), Russian politician
• Isidor Gunsberg (1854–1930), English chess player
• Isidor Harsieber (1891–1964), Austrian politician
• Isidor Himmelbaur (1858–1919), Austrian librarian and popular educator
• Isidor Kaufmann (1853–1921), Hungarian painter
• Isidorus Keppler (1715–1792), German professor of theology
• Isidor Levin (1919–2018), Estonian folklorist, storyteller and theologian
• Isidor Mautner (1852–1930), Austrian entrepreneur
• Isidorus Orientalis (1786-1825), German poet and writer
• Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988), American physicist
• Isidor Rosenthal (1836–1915), German physiologist
• Isidor Sadger (1867–1942), Austrian doctor and psychoanalyst
• Isidor Schalit (1871–1954), Austrian-Israeli dentist and Zionist
• Isidor Straus (1845–1912), American businessman and politician
• Isidor Velikanović (1869–1940), Croatian writer, satirist and translator
• Isidor Bogdan Zahradník (1864–1926), Bohemian premonstratensian and politician

As a middle name (examples, all forms)

• Aloys Isidor Jeitteles (1794–1858), Austrian doctor and poet
• Franz Isidor Proschko (1816–1891), Austrian writer and lawyer
• Joseph Isidor Achron (1886–1943), Polish composer and violinist
• Karl Isidor Beck (1817–1879), Austrian poet, journalist and writer
• Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758–1794), French lawyer, politician and revolutionary
• Louis Isadore Kahn (1901–1974), American architect and town planner

as well as cognomen :

• Flavius ​​Anthemius Isidorus (5th century), Roman consul 436

Examples of contractions

• Victor-Augustin-Isidore Dechamps (1810-1883), Belgian theologian, archbishop and cardinal

See also

• List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with Isidore
• List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains Isidore

literature

• Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Isidor . In: Duden - The great first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Bibliographer. Institut AG, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 (also Duden - Lexicon of first names . 5th edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-04945-5 .).