Ottilie

Ottilie is a female given name .

origin

Ottilie is a diminutive of names with the Old High German name element ot "inherited property".

Remembrance day

The feast day of St. Odilia (Alsace) is December 13th , that of Odilia of Cologne is July 18th .

variants

Ottilia , Odilia , Odilie, Odile (French), Odilon (French / male)

Important namesake women

Ottilie Arndt (nee Hofmann; * 1951), German writer (pseudonym: Lena Bloom)
Ottilie Assing (1819–1884), German writer and fighter for abolitionism
Ottilie Baader (1847–1925), German women's rights activist and socialist
Ottilie Bach (1836–1905), German writer (pseudonyms: O. Bach and Otto Ulrichs)
Ottilie von Baden (1470–1490), Margravine of Baden and Abbess of Pforzheim
Ottilie Collin (1863–1960), Austrian theater actress and singer (soprano)
Ottilie Ehlers-Kollwitz (1900–1963), German graphic artist and painter, daughter-in-law of Käthe Kollwitz
Ottilie von Faber-Castell (1877–1944), German entrepreneur
Ottilie Fellwock (1877 - after 1913), Austrian opera singer (alto)
Ottilie Genée (1834–1911), German actress and singer
Ottilie von Goethe (born Freiin von Pogwisch; 1796–1872), daughter-in-law of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ottilie von Hansemann (1840–1919), German women's rights activist
Ottilie Hoffmann (1835–1925), German educator and social politician
Ottilie von Katzenelnbogen (1453–1517)
Ottilie Kürschner (* 1915 as Ottilie Würster; † in the 1980s), German costume designer and doll designer
Ottilie Matysek (* 1939), former Austrian politician (SPÖ) and member of the state parliament in Burgenland
Ottilie Metzger (1878–1943), German singer (contralto) and singing teacher
Ottilie Müntzer (* before 1505, † after 1525), German nun and later wife of the reformer Thomas Müntzer
Ottilie Patterson (1932–2011), Northern Irish blues singer
Ottilie Pohl (nee Levit; 1867–1943), German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
Ottilie Reylaender (1882–1965), German painter
Ottilie Roederstein (1859–1937), German-Swiss painter
Ottilie Schoenewald (* 1883 as Ottilie Mendel; † 1961), German politician and women's rights activist
Ottilie Scholz (* 1948), German SPD politician; since 2004 mayor of the city of Bochum
Ottilie Schwahn (1849–1918), German narrator
Ottilie Wildermuth (née Rooschüz; 1817–1877), German writer and author of young books

literature

Ottilie is one of the two main female characters in the novel The Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .