Sidonia
Sidonia is a feminine given name. The male form is Sidonius , known from the Gallo-Roman aristocrat Sidonius Apollinaris .
origin
The name comes from Latin and means woman from Sidon , a former Phoenician trading town in today's Lebanon .
Name days
- 23rd June
- 14th November
variants
- Sidonie (German, French)
- Sidonija (Croatian, South Slavic)
- Sidony (English)
- Sydonia (Polish)
- Zdena, Zdenka or Zdeňka (Czech)
- Pet forms : Sida, Sitta, Sidi
Well-known namesake
Sidonia:
- Sidonia von Borcke (1548–1620), Pomeranian nobleman
- Sidonia Gall (* 1946), Austrian author and educator
- Sidonia Jędrzejewska (* 1975), Polish politician
- Sidonia Hedwig Zigarunemann (1711–1740), German poet
Sidonie:
- Sidonie von Bayern (1488–1505), Bavarian princess
- Sidonie of Bohemia (1449–1510), Saxon duchess
- Sidonie von Sachsen (1518–1575), Wettin princess and later Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Princess of Calenberg-Göttingen
- Sidonie von Sachsen (1834–1862), Duchess of Saxony
- Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín (1885–1950), Bohemian baroness and salonière
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873–1954), French writer, variety artist and journalist
- Sidonie Goossens (1899-2004), British harpist
- Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz (1852–1907), Austrian writer, poet, translator and fashion designer
- Sidonie de la Houssaye (1820-1894), American writer
- Sidonie von Krosigk (* 1989), German actress
- Sidonie Werner (1860–1932), co-founder of the Jewish Women's Association and Hamburg social politician
Zdenka:
- Zdenka Becker (* 1951), Slovak-Austrian writer
- Zdenka Bergrová (1923–2008), Czech poet and translator
- Zdenka Faßbender (1879–1954), Czech-German singer (soprano)
- Zdenka Kramplová (* 1957), Slovak politician
- Zdenka Podkapová (* 1977), Czech photo model
- Zdenka Schelingová , Slovak nun, Zdenka (Cecilia) was canonized in 2003
Zdeňka:
- Zdeňka Baldová (1885–1958), Czech actress
- Zdeňka Hledíková (1938–2018), Czech historian, mediaevalist, archivist, codicologist and palaeographer
- Zdeňka Holisová (* 1979), Czech cross-country summer biathlete
- Zdeňka Pešatová (* 1999), Czech ski jumper
- Zdeňka Vávrová (* 1945), Czech astronomer
- Zdeňka Vejnarová (* 1981), Czech biathlete
- Zdeňka Černý (1895–1998), American cellist
Sidonia in literature
- Farewell to Sidonie , a novel by the writer Erich Hackl from 1989
- Pontus and Sidonia , medieval novel
- Sidonie von Grasenabb , conservative East Pomeranian noblemen in Theodor Fontane's novel Effi Briest from 1895
- Sidonie Knobbe , drug addict prostitute in Gerhart Hauptmann's tragicomedy Die Ratten from 1911
Individual evidence
- ^ Czech name days (Zdeňka) on myczechrepublic.com
- ↑ Name day calendar on kalender-365.de
- ^ Diogenes, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-257-01824-X , as paperback 1991, ISBN 3-257-22428-1 .