Octavian (name)
Octavian (from Latin Octavianus ; English Octavian , Italian Ottaviano , Spanish Octaviano , French Octavien , Polish Octawian ) is a male given name. The feminine form is octavia .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the Latin gentile name Octavius , which in turn is derived from the pre-classical prenomen Octavus (Latin for the eighth ).
Well-known namesake
- Emperor Augustus (* 63 BC; † 14 AD), born as Gaius Octavius . After the adoption by Julius Caesar be formally was Roman name Julius Caesar Octavianus , he has never performed in this form. In modern history he is still referred to as Octavian or Octavian for the time up to the award of the title Augustus .
- Pope John XII (937 / 939–964), (originally Octavian of Spoleto )
- Antipope Viktor IV (1095–1164), (originally Octaviano de Montecello )
- Ottaviano Fabrizio Mossotti (1791–1863), Italian physicist
- Octavian Joseph Graf Kinsky (1813–1896), founder of Kinsky horse breeding
- Octaviano Larrazolo (1859–1930), American politician
- Oktavia Aigner-Rollett (1877–1959), Austria's first female secondary doctor
- Octavian Goga (1881–1938), Romanian poet, playwright and politician
- Oktavian Schmucki OFMCap (1927–2018), Swiss Capuchin, author, religious historian and religious researcher.
- Ottaviano Dell'Acqua (born 1954), Italian stuntman and actor
- Octavian Ursu (* 1967), Lord Mayor of Görlitz
- Ottaviano Andriani (* 1974), Italian long-distance runner
fiction
- Pants role in Der Rosenkavalier , comedy by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss