Lienhard (name)
Lienhard is a German-speaking name.
Origin and meaning
Lienhard is an Upper German , more precisely Alemannic form of Leonhard . It is a Romance-Germanic hybrid formation from Latin leo ("lion") and Germanic hard ("kühn"). In its composite form it is a typical Germanic personal name formation and therefore means something like "bold lion".
The name is mostly used today as a family name and occasionally as a first name, and it was also used in German family names in the High Middle Ages . The family names Lienle and Liendl are short forms of Lienhard, while Lienharter is a patronymic form. Early evidence for the use as first names are the 1414 Moravian said Lienhart (Liendel) Hamer and in 1556 Konstanz mentioned Lienhart Lory .
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The Catholic namesake is Saint Leonhard von Limoges , who died in 559 and is counted among the Fourteen Helpers in Bavaria and is also known there as the Bavarian Lord God and Peasant God . His name day is celebrated on November 6th .
Name bearer
family name
- Demian Lienhard (* 1987), Swiss writer and archaeologist
- Fabian Lienhard (* 1993), Swiss cyclist
- Fredy Lienhard (1927–2012), Swiss cabaret artist
- Fredy Lienhard (racing driver) (* 1947), Swiss car racing driver
- Friedrich Lienhard (1865–1929), German-Alsatian writer
- Heinrich Lienhard (1822–1903), Swiss farmer in America
- Hermann Lienhard (lawyer) (1851–1905), Swiss judge and politician (FDP)
- Hermann Lienhard (writer) (1922–1999), Austrian poet
- Hubert Lienhard (* 1951), German manager
- Marc Lienhard (* 1935), French Lutheran theologian
- Marianne Lienhard (* 1968), Swiss politician
- Martin Lienhard (* 1946), Swiss Romance philologist
- Mary Lienhard (1928–2016), Swiss painter and graphic artist
- Patrick Lienhard (* 1992), German soccer player
- Pepe Lienhard (* 1946), Swiss musician
- Richard Lienhard (1919–2014), Swiss lawyer, journalist and politician
- Robert Lienhard (1919–1989), Swiss sculptor and metal sculptor
- Tim Lienhard (* 1960), German television journalist, reporter and author and producer
First name
- Lienhard von Aachen († before 1500), German stonemason of the late Gothic
- Fritz Dinkhauser , actually Friedrich Josef Lienhard Dinkhauser, Austrian politician
- Lienhard Hirschvogel (1504–1549), German merchant and builder of the Hirsvogel Hall , one of the art and architectural monuments in the city of Nuremberg
- Lienhard Wawrzyn , German director and screenwriter