Ludolf
Ludolf or Ludolph is both a first and a family name .
Origin and meaning
- hlod ( old Germanic ), hlud ( old Saxon , Anglo-Saxon , Frisian ), lut (Low High German): "loud" (as an adjective) or "famous"
- luit ( Old High German , Middle High German ): "People"
- ulf , olf , uolf (Old High German) "Wolf"
- Summarizing meaning: "lucky charm", "helper", "famous helper", "loud wolf", "people wolf"
The fact that the word 'f' was changed to 'ph' is explained by the fact that in the 16th and 17th centuries the Greek spelling with 'ph' was preferred to the German 'f'.
Patron saint is Saint Ludolf I.
distribution
The name is common in the German-speaking area . It was widespread in western and central Germany from the Middle Ages, both as a first name and a family name. The name was popular with the Saxon nobility in the Middle Ages.
variants
The most common variants are Ludlow and Ludloff .
name day
March 29th is celebrated as a Catholic and Protestant name day .
Name bearer as first name
Ludolf
- Liudolf (Saxony) (* around 805, † 866), namesake of the Liudolfinger (Ottonen)
- Liudolf (Swabia) (* around 930; † 957), Duke of Swabia
- Ludolf (Corvey) (around 915–983), Abbot of Corvey, saint of the Catholic Church
- Ludolf (Werden) , from 974 to 983 abbot of Werden and Helmstedt
- Ludolf von Trier ( Ludolf von Sachsen ; † 1008), Archbishop of Trier
- Ludolf von Brauweiler († 1031), Vogt von Brauweiler, heir to the rule of Waldenburg and Lord of Zütphen
- Liudolf (Friesland) († 1038), count and margrave in Friesland
- Ludolf von Znaim († 1112), Moravian duke, see Lutold von Znaim
- Ludolf von Brandenburg († 1137), Bishop of Brandenburg
- Ludolf I von Dassel (1115–1166), Count of Dassel
- Ludolf II. Von Dassel (around 1174 – around 1209), Count von Dassel
- Ludolf IV. Von Dassel (around 1183 – around 1223), Count von Dassel and Nienover
- Ludolf von Kroppenstedt († 1205), Archbishop of Magdeburg
- Ludolf (Reichsschultheiß) († 1237), Burgrave of Friedberg and Reichsschultheiß of Frankfurt am Main
- Ludolf von Schwanebeck († 1241), Canon of Magdeburg, election as Bishop of Brandenburg was not confirmed by the Pope
- Ludolf von Mihla († 1285), Bishop of Naumburg
- Ludolf von Rostorf (also von Rosdorf ; around 1240–1304), Bishop of Minden
- Ludolf I of Ratzeburg († 1250), Bishop of Ratzeburg and saint
- Ludolf V. von Dassel (before 1266 – after 1299), son of Ludolf IV. Von Dassel
- Ludolf König von Wattzau (1280 / 1290–1347 / 1348), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- Ludolf von Sachsen (around 1300–1378), German Carthusian and author of edification
- Ludolf von Sudheim (attested from 1336-1341), German pilgrim to the Orient and clergyman
- Ludolf von Kurland († 1359), Bishop of Courland and priest of the Teutonic Order
- Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630–1708), Dutch painter
- Ludolf August von Bismarck (also Bismark ; 1683–1750), general in the Russian army
- Ludolf Wienbarg (1802–1872), writer of the Vormärz
- Ludolf Camphausen (1803–1890), Prussian politician
- Ludolf Krehl (orientalist) (1825–1901), German orientalist
- Ludolf Parisius (1827–1900), German local researcher
- Ludolf August von Bismarck (District Administrator) (1834–1924), German District Administrator
- Ludolf Colditz (1847–1909), German lawyer and entrepreneur
- Ludolf Udo von Alvensleben (1852–1923), district deputy and Prussian politician
- Ludolf von Krehl (1861–1937), German physician
- Ludolf Nielsen (1876–1939), Danish composer
- Ludolf Hermann Müller (1882–1959), German theologian and bishop
- Ludolf Haase (1898–1972), Gauleiter of the Hannover-Süd district
- Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben (1901–1970), German SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS
- Ludolf Müller (literary scholar) (1917–2009), German Slavist and literary scholar
- Ludolf Kuchenbuch (* 1939), German historian and jazz musician
- Ludolf-Georg von Wartenberg (* 1941), German politician (CDU)
Ludolph
- Ludolph von Beckedorff (1778–1858), Prussian publicist, educator, ministerial official and landowner
- Ludolph Brauer (1865–1951), German physician
- Ludolph Büsinck (1599–1669), German form cutter and painter
- Ludolph van Ceulen (1540–1610), German fencing master and mathematician
- Ludolph Fischer (1900–1972), German tropical medicine specialist and university professor
- Ludolph Isermann (1882– ??), German manufacturer
- Ludolph Friedrich von Laffert (1757–1808), German administrative lawyer, draftsman and botanist
- Ludolph Lehmus (1780–1863), German mathematician
- Ludolph Erich von Lersner (1713–1773), Danish major general
- Ludolph von Münchhausen (1570–1640), German scholar
- Johann Ludolph Quenstedt (1663–1714), German bookseller and politician, Lord Mayor of Wittenberg
- Ludolph Schrader (1531–1589), German lawyer and university professor
- Ludolph Christian Treviranus (1779–1864), German botanist
- Ludolph Friedrich von Wrisberg (1823-1894), German lawyer, civil servant and politician
Name bearer as a family name
Ludolf
- Carl Wilhelm von Ludolf (1754–1803), Austrian diplomat and orientalist
- Ferdinand Ludolf (1846–1906), also: Ludolff and Ludolph and Ferdinand Friedrich Heinrich Ludolff , German architect
- Georg Melchior von Ludolf (1667–1740), German legal scholar
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf (1655–1712), German scholar
- Hieronymus Ludolf (medic) (1679–1728), German medic, mathematician, botanist and chemist
- Hieronymus von Ludolf (1708–1764), German physician and chemist
- Job Ludolf (also Leutholf or Job Ludolph ; 1624–1704), German philologist
- Johann Hiob Ludolf (1649–1711), German mathematician
- Julius Ludolf (1893–1947), German SS-Obersturmführer
Ludolph
- Andrea Ludolph (1962–2015), German child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- Sören Ludolph (* 1988), German athlete
See also
- Ludolff , Ludolphy , Lüthold , Lutold , Ludloff
- Circle number (Ludolph number)
- The Ludolfs - 4 brothers in the scrapyard , German TV series
- Liudolfinger
literature
- Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff : History of the Ludolf-Ludloff family. Roßteutscher, 1910, p. 7 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Boris Paraschkewow: Words and names of the same origin and structure: Lexicon of etymological duplicates in German . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-017470-0 ( google.de [accessed December 27, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Ludolf on behindthename.com
- ↑ a b c Rosa and Volker Dres Kohlheim: Duden - The great first name dictionary: Origin and meaning of over 8,000 first names . Bibliographisches Institut, 2017, ISBN 978-3-411-91240-7 ( google.de [accessed December 27, 2017]).