Jodok
Jodok is a male name .
meaning
The name probably has its origin in the Celtic iud for "fighter", "warrior" or "lord".
variants
- Jodokus, Jodocus, Judocus, Judochus, Jodock
- Jobst , Jost, Joost , Jos , Joos, Johs, Johst , Joszt (Hungarian variant)
- Josse , Jocelyn, Jocelyne, Josselin, Josseline, Josquin (French)
- Joist, Joyce (Eng.)
- Giosch (Raetorom . )
name day
Well-known namesake
- St. Jodok (around 600 to 670), Breton hermit and monastery founder
- Jobst von Moravia (1351–1411), Roman-German king
- Jost von Silenen (* between 1435 and 1445; † 1498), Bishop of Grenoble and Sitten
- Jobst Nikolaus I (Hohenzollern) (1433–1488), Count of Hohenzollern
- Jobst II. (Schaumburg) (1520–1581), from 1557 Mr. von Gemen
- Form Jodok, Jodokus, Jodocus
- Jodocus Badius (1462–1535), Flemish printer
- Jodokus brother (1442–1529), abbot of the later imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen
- Jodocus Caesem († 1664), priest and abbot of the Marienfeld monastery
- Jodok Fink (1853–1929), Austrian politician, Vice Chancellor 1919–1920
- Jodocus Heringa Eliza's zoon (1765-1840), Dutch Reformed theologian
- Jodokus Heß (1484–1539), German Carthusian prior and writer
- Jodocus Andreas Hiltebrandt (1667–1746), German Protestant theologian
- Jodokus Hodfilter (1500–1551), Bishop of Lübeck
- Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), Flemish cartographer
- Jodokus Jost (approx. 1589 to before 1657), Swiss farmer and chronicler
- Jodocus Koch, known as Justus Jonas the Elder (1493–1555), German reformer
- Jodocus Lorichius (1540–1612), German theologian
- Jodocus Hermann Nünning (1675–1753), German historian and antiquarian
- Jodocus Stülz (1799–1872), Austrian historian
- Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme (1798–1881), German politician, lawyer and writer
- Jodocus Trutfetter (* around 1460, † 1519), German Catholic theologian and philosopher
- Jodokus Wagenhauer (1580–1635), German auxiliary bishop and university rector
- Jodocus Willich (1501–1552), East Prussian doctor, philologist and polymath
- Jodocus van Winghe (* 1542/44; † 1603), Flemish painter
- Form Jobst, Jost, Joos
- Jost Amman (1539–1591), Swiss-German engraver
- Jobst Edmund von Brabeck (1619–1702), Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim
- Jobst von Brandt (1517–1570), German composer
- Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss watchmaker and astronomer
- Joos van Cleve (1485–1540), Dutch painter
- Jost Ludwig Dietz (around 1485–1545), Polish humanist from Alsace
- Jost Dülffer (* 1943), German historian
- Jobst Fricke (* 1930), German musicologist
- Jost Gross (1946–2005), Swiss politician
- Jobst Hirscht (* 1948), German athlete
- Jost Hoen (around 1500–1569), German educator
- Jobst Hilmar von Knigge (1605–1683), imperial colonel, field marshal and commandant
- Joos de Momper (1564–1635), Flemish painter
- Jost Nolte (1927–2011), German writer and journalist
- Jobst Paul (* 1946), German teacher and linguist, literary and cultural scientist
- Jost Pieper (* 1972), German actor
- Jobst Plog (* 1941), German journalist and director
- Jobst Schlennstedt (* 1976), German writer
- Jobst Schöne (* 1931), bishop emeritus of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Jobst Scholten (1644–1721), engineer officer, fortress builder and commander in chief of the Danish army
- Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla senior (1676–1739), Count of Stolberg-Roßla
- Jost Stollmann (* 1955), German entrepreneur
- Jost Trier (1894–1970), German Germanist (doctorate on the veneration of St. Jodok and the spread of the name)
- Jost Vacano (* 1934), German cameraman
- Jobst Wagner (* 1959), Swiss entrepreneur and patron
- Joos van Wassenhove (* around 1410, † around 1480), Flemish painter
- Jost Winteler (1846–1929), Swiss linguist, ornithologist and poet
- Jost Wischnewski (* 1962), German sculptor and installation artist
- Middle name
- Kaspar Jodok von Stockalper (1609–1691), Swiss politician and entrepreneur
- Wolf Jobst Siedler (1883–1963), German diplomat
- Wolf Jobst Siedler (1926–2013), German publicist and publisher, son of the diplomat
- pseudonym
- Jodok , pseudonym for Hanns von Gumppenberg (1866–1928), German cabaret artist ( Die Elf Scharfrichter )
Literary characters
- Exodus and homecoming of Jodok Fink by Johannes Freumbichler , 1942
- Jodok sends his regards from Peter Bichsel , in: Kindergeschichten , 1969
- Alfred Jodocus Kwak , title character of a music fable by Hermann van Veen and a cartoon series based on this
- Remember Joost from Sesame Street
Place names
- Saint-Josse-sur-Mer , Pas-de-Calais department, France
- Saint-Judoce , Cotes-d'Armor department, France
- Saint-Josse-ten-Noode / Sint-Joost-ten-Node , an independent municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region
- St. Jodok am Brenner , part of the communities Schmirn and Vals in Tyrol
- St. Joost, municipality of Stinstedt , Lower Saxony
- St. Jost, municipality of Langenfeld (Eifel)
- Jobst, district of Bad Blumau , Styria
- Jostberg, hill in Bielefeld
- Josthöhe and Jostweg in Hamburg
Churches
see Jodokuskirche