Joosten
Joosten is a male given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
Joosten is originally a patronymic formation (weak genitive) for the male given name Joost .
Name bearer
First name
- Joosten Mindrup (* 1967), German actor and theater director
Patronymic
- Jan Joosten (~ 1560–1623), Dutch seaman
family name
- Guy Joosten (* 1963), Belgian theater and opera director
- Hanns Joosten (* 1961), Dutch photographer who lives and works in Berlin
- Jan Joosten (biblical scholar) (* 1959), Belgian biblical scholar
- Joost Joosten (? –1560), Dutch Baptist who was burned while singing
- Kathryn Joosten (1939–2012), American actress of Dutch origin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joosten on vornames-weltweit.de
- ↑ Peter Hoover: Baptism of Fire. The radical life of the Anabaptists - a provocation , Down to Earth, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-935992-23-7 , page 207