Robert (first name)

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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

Female:

Short forms:

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:

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

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

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Bahlow : Our first names through the centuries. Starke Verlag, Limburg ad Lahn 1965, p. 86.
  2. ↑ See Hans Bahlow : Deutsches Namenlexikon. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg 1967.
  3. ^ Robert in the Luxembourg dictionary