Notker
Notker (also Notger ) is an old German male given name .
origin
The name is made up of the Old High German syllables "nôt" (distress in battle) and "gêr" (spear); means - like Shakespeare in English - 'one who averts the ger' ('savior in need').
distribution
The name was already rare in the late Middle Ages.
Well-known namesake
- Famous monks of the St. Gallen Monastery (also called the Notkere of St. Gallen ):
- Notker I. Balbulus (around 840-912), poet and scholar, Notker the Stammerer called
- Notker II. Physicus (the doctor) or Piperisgranum (peppercorn) (937–975), doctor, painter and scholar
- Notker III. Labeo (the German; around 952-1022), poet, scholar and translator
- Notker of St. Gallen († December 15, 975), Dept.
- Notker Heine (1697–1758), librarian at the St. Gallen monastery
- Other persons with this name:
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middle Ages
- Notger von Lüttich († 1008), nephew of Emperor Otto I and Bishop of Lüttich
- Noker von Zwiefalten († after 1090), Benedictine, poet and abbot of Zwiefalten Monastery
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Modern times
- Notker Becker (1883–1978), sacred artist and Benedictine
- Notker Füglister (1931–1996), Catholic theologian and Old Testament scholar
- Notker Hammerstein (* 1930), German historian
- Notker Schweikhardt (* 1960), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Notger Slenczka (* 1960), German Protestant theologian
- Notker Wolf (* 1940), Abbot Primate of the Benedictine order
swell
- Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz & Horst Leisering - Knaur's first name book -, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8
- Günther Drosdowski - Duden Lexicon of First Names: Origin, Meaning and Use of several thousand first names , Bibliographisches Institut (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Ochsenbein : Review of In the Short is the Klaumauk, or: All the dusty dramas of Shakespeare, slightly shortened and appetizing, for people to think about in 2000. In: Würzburger medical historical messages 21, 2002, p. 599 f.