Roderich (first name)
Roderich is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name Roderich is of Gothic origin and was historically widespread in both the Germanic and the Romance- speaking areas; a Germanic root form is Hrōþirīk (i) az . The name is two-part and means svw. “Glorious”, consisting of the words “hroth” (fame) and “rihhi” (rich, powerful), also attested in Old High German .
variants
A contracted spelling of the name is Rodrich .
The feminine form of the first name is Roderika in German , also Latinized Roderica . The male Low German name form Roderik is also common in the German-speaking world.
Other forms of language:
- Dutch Roderik
- English Roderick, Rodrick, Roderic , short form also Rod
- Latin Rodericus, Roderico, Rudericus, Ruderic
- Catalan Roderic
- Italian Roderico, Rodrico
- French Rodrigue, Rodéric
- Portuguese Rodrigo , short form Rui or Ruy
- Galician Roi , also Rui, long form Rodrigo
- Spanish Rodrigo , short form Ruy
Name day and namesake
As a name day is March 13 celebrated the Memorial of St. Roderich (Rudericus, Rodrigo), a priest who in 857 Cordova in Andalusia died and the Cordovan martyrs (9th century) belongs.
Better known than this saint, however, is the Visigoth king Roderich , the legendary "last Gothic king" Rodrigo at the time of the Islamic conquest of Hispania in the 8th century.
The Spanish national hero Rodrigo Díaz, known as El Cid , is also very well known and widely used as the namesake .
Name bearer
- Roderich , King of the Visigoths (710–711)
- Roderich Benedix (1811–1873), German comedy poet, actor, theater director
- Roderich Dietze (1909–1960), German sports reporter
- Roderich Egeler (* 1950), German economist, former President of the Federal Statistical Office
- Roderich von Erckert (1821–1900), German ethnographer and officer in the Russian service
- Roderich Feldes (1946–1996), German writer
- Roderich Fick (1886–1955), German architect
- Roderich Hustaedt (1878–1958), German politician (NLP, DDP), Minister of State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Roderich Kiesewetter (* 1963), retired German Colonel D. and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
- Roderich Kreile (* 1956), German choir director, cantor of the Dresden Kreuzchor
- Roderich Albert Kunkler (1846–1900), Swiss politician (FDP)
- Roderich Menzel (1907–1987), Czech and German tennis player
- Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár (1877–1953), Austrian conductor, composer, music and stage writer
- Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn (1892–1956), Austrian writer
- Roderich Plate (1907–1993), German agricultural economist and advisor to the federal government
- Roderichgler (* 1939), Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
- Diether Roderich Reinsch (* 1940), German Byzantinist and Neo-Graecist
- Roderich Schmidt (1925–2011), German historian
- Roderich von Stotzingen (1822–1893), Baden landowner and politician
- Roderich Straub (1847–1925), Baden civil servant
- Roderich Graf von Thun (1908–1983), German lawyer
Short form "Rod"
- Rod Blagojevich (* 1956), American politician
- Rod Brind'Amour (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player
- Rodrigo González (* 1968), German rock musician
- Rod Laver (born 1938), Australian tennis player
- Rod Steiger (1925–2002), American actor
- Rod Stewart (born 1945), British rock singer
- Rod Taylor (1930-2015), Australian actor
- Rod White (* 1977), American archer and Olympic champion
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friederike Tschochner: Art. Roderich (Rodrigo) and Salomon , in: Encyclopedia of Christian iconography . Volume 8, Freiburg im Breisgau 1968, Col. 278. Cf. d. Entry Roderich in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints . More precisely: Kenneth Baxter Wolf: Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1988. ISBN 978-0-521-34416-6 (Reprint 2014: ISBN 978-1-107-63481-7 ), p. 32 f. ( online ).