Robert (first name)
Robert is a male given name derived from Germanic .
Origin and meaning
Robert is the Norman form of the name from Old Germanic "(H) rod-berht" and means something like "of brilliant fame". The meaning of the Old High German word "hrōd", "hruod" is fame , honor and the word "beraht" stands for radiant, shiny, proud .
distribution
In the Middle Ages, the name "Robert" was common in both German and French- speaking countries. The name was primarily used as a nobility and ruler's name. For example, Robert the Brave ( French Robert le Fort ) is the founder of the Robertin family named after him , a branch of the Rhineland-Franconian Rupertine dynasty , to whom all French kings from the house of the Capetians and from the later French royal houses ( House Valois , House Bourbon ) came from and thus ancestor of the "House of France" (Maison de France) .
The name came from Normandy to the British island . The name was forgotten in Germany and was only reintroduced and popular in the 18th century through the knight poetry and the literary processing of the history of the Norman dukes (see: " Robert Guiskard , Duke of Normans" by Heinrich von Kleist , 1803 and " Robert le diable “ by Giacomo Meyerbeer , 1831).
Today the name is particularly popular in North America (often shortened to “Bob” as a baptismal name), but the name is also very widespread in the German, French and Romance-speaking areas.
variants
- Rup [p] ert / Rup [p] right , southern German and Bavarian
- Robertas , Lithuanian
- Roberto , Italian, Spanish and Portuguese
- Robertus
Female:
Short forms:
- Bert
- bob
- Bobo (nickname)
- Bobby
- Bobbie
- Rob
- Robbes (Luxembourgish)
- Robin (name)
- Robbi (also female)
- Robbie
- Robby
- Röbi (Switzerland)
- Röbke (Low German)
name day
Well-known name days are:
Well-known namesake
Ruler
For the rulers named Robert, see main article: List of rulers named Robert
Saints
The following saints had the first name Robert:
- Saint Robert of Molesme (around 1028–1111), co-founder of the Cistercians
- Saint Robert Bellarmin (1542–1621), Jesuit Doctor of the Church
- Saint Robert von Turlande (1001-1067), founder of the Chaise-Dieu monastery
See also: Saint Rupert on the variants -bert / -brecht
German language area
- Robert Blum (1807–1848), German politician, leader of the Democrats during the March Revolution of 1848
- Robert Bosch (1861–1942), German entrepreneur
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), German scientist
- Robert Havemann (1910–1982), German chemist, critic of the regime in the GDR and publicist
- Robert Huber (* 1973), German physicist and professor
- Robert Koch (1843–1910), German scientist and Nobel Prize laureate for physiology or medicine
- Robert Lembke (1913–1989), German journalist and television presenter
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer and pianist of the Romantic period
- Robert Spaemann (1927–2018), German philosopher
English speaking area
- Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish writer and poet
- Robert Gottlieb (* 1931), American writer and journalist
- Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English physicist, mathematician and inventor
- Robert Hyatt (* 1948), American computer chess programmer
- Robert Roy MacGregor (Rob Roy) (1671–1734), Scottish folk hero
- Robert of Newminster († 1159), English monk and first abbot of Newminster Abbey
- Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), American physicist
- Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), British polar explorer
French language area
- Robert the Monk , medieval cleric from the Reims area in France
- Robert von Arbrissel (* around 1045–1116), founder of the Order of Fontevraud
- Robert de Namur (1323–1391), Dutch knight and nobleman in the 14th century from the House of Dampierre
- Robert Schuman (1886–1963), French politician, founding father of the European Union
- Robert von Sorbon (1201–1274), French theologian and court chaplain, namesake of the first university in France, the Sorbonne
Fictitious namesake
- Robert T-Online , avatar of Telekom advertising
- The flying Robert , children's book character ( Struwwelpeter )
- Robert , a character from the children's series Sesame Street
- Emperor Robert Heinrich , caricature of an Austrian emperor in the satirical talk show of ORF "Wir sind Kaiser"
- Robert " Rocky " Balboa, character in the film series of the same name
- Robert Brocklehurst, clergyman in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Bahlow : Our first names through the centuries. Starke Verlag, Limburg ad Lahn 1965, p. 86.
- ↑ See Hans Bahlow : Deutsches Namenlexikon. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg 1967.
- ^ Robert in the Luxembourg dictionary