Landolt (family name)
Landolt is a Swiss family name.
Meaning of the name
Landolt , a male was originally first name with the meaning 'of the country Wielding' from ahd. Country 'country, area, area' and waltan 'violence have dominion' of the patronymic with it and the family name has become.
Origin, places of origin
The family name goes back to at least two original genders, one in the Zürcher Weinland (especially Kleinandelfingen ) and the other in Näfels in Glarus . The Landolt, who are based in the city of Zurich (attested from 1370), in the Enge , in Thalwil and in Adliswil , presumably originally descended from the Näfels family. However, several representatives of the Kleinandelfingen family have had Zurich citizenship since 1875. Today's Landolt from Aargau, Bern and West Switzerland originally go back to the Stadtzürcher and Engemer Landolt.
Name bearer
- Adolf Landolt (1907–1973), Swiss politician (SP)
- Arlo Udell Landolt (* 1935) , American astronomer
- Christoph Landolt (* 1966), Swiss linguist and lexicographer
- Edmund Landolt (1846–1926), Swiss ophthalmologist
- Elias Landolt (forest scientist) (1821–1896), Swiss forest scientist
- Elias Landolt (geobotanist) (1926–2013), Swiss geobotanist
- Elmar Landolt (* 1962), Swiss football player
- Emil Landolt (1895–1995), Swiss politician (FDP, Canton of Zurich)
- Ernst Landolt (* 1953), Swiss politician (SVP)
- Franz Landolt (1901-1965), Swiss politician (SP)
- Hans Heinrich Landolt (1831–1910), Swiss chemist
- Heinrich Landolt (politician) (1763–1850), Swiss politician, member of the government of the Canton of Zurich
- Heinrich Landolt (* 1943), Swiss development worker and writer
- Joachim Landolt († 1602), minister pastor in Freiburg i. Br.
- Jules Landolt (1930–2005), Swiss politician (CSP, CVP, Canton of Glarus)
- Markus Landolt (* 1961), Swiss entrepreneur and politician of the CVP
- Markus Andreas Landolt (* 1962), Swiss clinical psychologist, scientist, lecturer and author
- Martin Landolt (* 1968), Swiss politician (SVP, BDP, Canton Glarus)
- Meinrad Landolt (* 1967), Swiss handball player
- Reto Landolt (* 1992), Swiss wrestler
- Robert Landolt (1907–2004), Swiss architect
- Salomon Landolt (1741-1818), Swiss politician (Canton of Zurich)
- Samuel Landolt (publisher) (1803–1880), Swiss publisher, journalist and printer
literature
- E. Dejung, J. Frick, J. Kubly-Müller, H. Tribolet, P. X. Weber: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 4, pp. 594 f.
- Frédy Dubois: Landolt BE. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Hans Laupper, Hans Rudolf Stauffacher: Landolt GL. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Katja Hürlimann: Landolt ZH. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Viktor Schobinger, Alfred Egli, Hans Kläui: Zurich family names. Origin, distribution and meaning of the names of long-established Zurich families. Zurich 1994.