Notker

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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:
middle Ages
Modern times

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

  1. 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.