Roland (first name)
Roland is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The underlying Germanic personal name ( protogermanisch * Hrōþilandą ) is composed of the elements * hrōþiz ( ahd. Hruod ) "Glory" and * Landa (ahd. Lant ) "Country" and gave u. a. fränkisch * Hruodland (is in the Latin form Hroudlandus ), ahd. Hruotland and medium Dutch Roelant . Roland initially represents the old French form of the name, which was then borrowed into other languages.
The best-known bearer of the name is the Count of the Breton Mark under Charlemagne , attested as Rotlandus in the Vita Karoli Magni , who fell on August 15, 778 at Roncesvalles in battle against a Basque army. The old French Roland song (around 1100), which bore the name in other literary languages, was later ignited by this figure . a. inspired the Italian Orlando furioso (1516) of Ariostus . While the second element, ahd.lant , is comparatively rare in personal names - the Low German Lambert and its High German variant Lamprecht are to be mentioned at best - ahd.hruod also has its place in the medieval names Rüdiger , Rudolf , Roswitha and the Norman Robert and the originally French Roger (<old French Rogier , accordingly again the German Rüdiger).
name day
- September 15 : Roland von Salsomaggiore († 1386), hermit
- July 14th : Roland of Chézery († 1200), abbot of the Chézery monastery
- November 9th (church calendar)
variants
The feminine - extremely rare - form of the given name is Rolande . Variants in other languages include:
- English : Rowland , Rolland or Roland, also reduced to Roly and Rowley
- Italian : Rolando , Orlando
- Lithuanian : Rolandas
- Dutch : Roeland , reduced to Roel
- Portuguese : Rolando , Roldão
- Russian : Rolan
- Spanish : Rolando , Roldán , Rolán and Orlando
- Hungarian : Lóránt or Loránd
Well-known namesake
- Roland, Rotlandus or Hruotland (≈736–778), Margrave in the Franconian Empire, hero of the Roland saga and the Roland song
- Roland, Lord of Galloway († 1200), Scottish magnate
- Roland of Parma (12th / 13th centuries), Italian surgeon
- Roland Bausert (* 1942), German pop singer
- Roland Benz (* 1940), German soccer player
- Roland Benz (* 1943), German biophysicist and electrophysiologist
- Roland Berger (* 1937), German entrepreneur and consultant
- Roland Braun (* 1972), German Nordic combined skier
- Roland Braun (* 1953), retired German general D. the Air Force
- Roland Büchner (* 1954), German cathedral music director in Regensburg, director of the Regensburger Domspatzen
- Roland De Wolfe (* 1979), British poker player
- Roland Dickgießer (* 1960), German soccer player
- Roland Dupont (1909-2004), American jazz trombonist
- Roland Düringer (* 1963), Austrian cabaret artist
- Roland Dyens (1955–2016), French composer and guitarist
- Roland Emmerich (* 1955), German filmmaker
- Roland Graf von Faber-Castell (1905–1978), German aristocrat and industrialist
- Roland Freisler (1893–1945), German lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
- Roland Garros (1888–1918), French aviation pioneer
- Roland Gööck (1923–1991), German non-fiction author and editor
- Roland Hattenberger (* 1948), Austrian football player
- Roland Henz (1949–2017), German politician (SPD), Member of the State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Saarlouis
- Roland Herrmann (* 1967), Swiss actor
- Roland M. Horn (* 1963), German non-fiction author, amateur astronomer, UFO phenomenon and Atlantis researcher
- Roland Huber (20th century) German mathematician
- Roland Hug (1936–2019), Swiss jazz musician
- Roland Jankowsky (* 1968), German actor
- Roland Kaiser (* 1952), German pop singer
- Roland Kischkel (* 1959), German specialist in German studies and educator, University Chancellor of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
- Roland Koch (* 1958), German politician (CDU)
- Roland Koch (* 1959), Swiss actor
- Roland Köhler (* 1955), Swiss publisher
- Roland Kopf (* around 1960), German motorcycle racer and entrepreneur
- Roland Leitinger (* 1991), Austrian skier
- Roland Linz (* 1981), Austrian soccer player
- Roland Matthes (1950–2019), German swimmer
- Roland Peil (* 1967), German drummer and percussionist
- Roland Pfaus (* 1968), German actor
- Roland Pröll (* 1949), German pianist
- Roland Putsche (* 1991), Austrian soccer player
- Roland Resch (* 1984), Austrian motorcycle racer
- Roland Schimmel (* 1966), German legal scholar
- Roland Schnell (1921–1980), German motorcycle racer
- Roland Trettl (* 1971), German-Italian cook and author
- Roland Evelyn Turnbull (1905–1960), British Governor General of British North Borneo
- Roland W. (1941–2009), German pop singer
- Roland Wille (* 1961), Liechtenstein marathon runner
See also
- Roland (disambiguation)
- Roland (statue)
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry "Roland" on Behindthename.com, accessed on June 14, 2016.
- ↑ Landfried, Landholt, Landrich and Landwin must be considered extremely rare . See Hans Bahlow: Deutsches Namenlexikon. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1972 (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 65), pp. 306f., ISBN 3-5183-6565-7 ; Lutz Mackensen: The big book of first names. Origin · Derivations and pet forms · Distribution · Famous name bearers · Memorial and name days · Faded first names , with the collaboration of Dr. Gesine Schwarz-Mackensen. Munich, Southwest 1969; seventh, completely revised edition: Wiesbaden, VMA 1990, p. 124, ISBN 3-5170-1204-1 .
- ↑ In contrast, Wieland can be traced back to proto-European * Wēla-nandaz , i.e. to the same head of Ferdinand ( * nand "able, ready, courageous, brave"). Hellmut Rosenfeld: The name Wieland . In: Contributions to Name Research , Ser. NS, 4: 53-62 (1969).