Lukan

This article deals with the first and last name Lukan. For the Roman poet, see Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ; for the Latin form of the name, see Lucanus .

Lukan is a male given name and also a family name . The even rarer female form of the male given name is Lukana.

Origin and meaning

Lukan is the delatinized form of the ancient Roman name Lucanus, which is probably derived from the common place name Luca.

The first name Lukan is a Croatian variant of the first name Lukas . In this context he means "the light one, the one shining, the one born at daybreak".

name day

• Lukan von Säben (St. Lukan or St. Lucanus ), Catholic bishop and saint: July 27th and July 20th (in the dioceses of Bozen-Brixen and Belluno)
• Lukan (also Lucian, Lucain, Lucien) of Loigny in Beauce ( St. Lucanus ), Catholic martyr and saint: October 30th

Occurrence

In Croatia and Albania , Lukan is a variant of Luka, a given name more commonly used by the Croatian than by the Serbian population. The first name Lukan was mostly in use at the turn of the 20th century.

Well-known namesake

First name

Depiction of a bearer of his name, Saint Lukan von Säben (copper engraving, 1714)

• Lukan von Säben . The Catholic saint lived in the 5th century AD and was Bishop of Säben ( South Tyrol ). His relics are venerated in Belluno today.
• Lukan (also Lucian, Lucain, Lucien) from Loigny in Beauce . The Catholic saint lived in the 5th century AD and died a martyr by beheading . His relics are venerated today in Paris ( Notre-Dame Cathedral ).
• Lukan Busch , actor
• Lukana Lisani , actress
• Lukan Lukanović , Yugoslav cameraman

family name

• Karl Lukan (1923–2014), Austrian mountaineer, amateur archaeologist and author
• Klara Lukan (* 2000), Slovenian athlete
• Sylvia Lukan (* 1942), Austrian actress
• Thomas Lukan (* 1961), Austrian composer

nickname

• Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39–65), Roman poet

fiction

• Lukan from the novel Herdfeuer by the Croatian writer, publicist and politician Mile Budak . Lukan is the personification of the good and the noble, martyr and protector of the hearth fire. and symbol of the struggle of the Croatian people for their independence

See also

• Lucan
• Lucanus
• Luke

Web links

• Details for the first name Lukan in a German first name database
• Croatian Catholic calendar on the website of the parish of Vela Luka
• Croatian database of first names for the name Lukan
• US first name database for the name Lukan

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austrian official calendar 2004/2005, p. 1768
2. ↑ Liborius.de (Liboriusverlag GmbH and Co. KG): The Saints from A to Z. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved on August 25, 2013 (source: Jakob Torsy, Hans-Joachim Kracht (2002): The big name day calendar. 3850 names and 1680 biographies of the namesake, Herder Verlag, Freiburg). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
3. ^ Paul Perdrizet : Le Calendrier parisien a la fin du Moyen age d'apres le Breviaire et les livres d'heures. - Paris: Les Belles Lettres 1933. 314 pp., IX plate 8 °. Ophrys, 1933, ISBN. limited preview in Google Book search
4. ^ Frank Parise: The Book of Calendars. Gorgias Press LLC, 2002, ISBN 978-1-931956-76-5 , p. 372. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
5. ↑ Croatian database of first names on the name Lukan. Retrieved December 28, 2014 .  In: imehrvatsko.net
6. ↑ Lukan von Säben. Retrieved December 28, 2014 .  In: heiligenlexikon.de
7. ↑ Amable Bonnefons: Kurtze, But extra-reading life of the love saints God. Strötter, Gastel and Ilger, 1735, p. 452. Restricted preview in the Google book search
8. ↑ Alban Butler: Lives of Fathers and Martyrs and Other Excellent Saints. S. Müller Buchhandlung, 1825 limited preview in the Google book search
9. ^ Heinrich Detzel: Christian iconography: The pictorial representations of the saints. Herder, 1896 limited preview in the Google book search
10. ^ François Huot: Les manuscrits liturgiques du canton de Genève. Saint-Paul, 1990, ISBN 978-2-8271-0443-7 , p. 79. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
11. ^ Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved August 26, 2013 . 
12. ^ Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved August 26, 2013 . 
13. ^ Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved August 26, 2013 . 
14. ↑ Mile Budak: Hearth fire . Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig: Karl H. Bischoff Verlag, 1943. - Original as: Ognjište: Roman iz ličkog seljačkog života (The hearth: a novel from the rural life of Lika). Vol. 1-4. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 1938
15. ^ Ivo Frangeš: History of Croatian Literature: From the Beginning to the Present , p. 352. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 1995. - ISBN 978-3412089955
16. ↑ Emil Čić: Povijest hrvatskih neprijatelja . Zagreb: Vlastita autorska naklada, 2002. - ISBN 953-98968-0-0