Siegbert
Siegbert is an old German male given name , which is rare today .
etymology
In terms of linguistic history, the name Siegbert comes from Old English . It is made up of “sigi” ( victory ) and “ferth” (shiny) and identifies the bearer of the name Sigiferth as the “shiny in victory”. In the course of the second sound shift , vowels and consonants changed. From Sigi was Vorsilbendehnung win , f became b , th became t . This is how today's name Siegbert emerged from Sigiferth .
Earliest proof of name
The earliest mention of the name form Sigiferth is known from the old English Finnsbur member , which research dates to the 8th century.
The Germanic hero song, only preserved as a fragment, tells of the heroic battle for the Finnsburg, in which a warrior named Sigiferth is distinguished by his outstanding bravery.
The battle for Finnsburg is also mentioned again in the Beowulf epic, which was later written . According to the material received, the text-critical analyzes assume a conflict between Danes and Frisians during the Migration Period . The legal scholar and old Germanist Felix Genzmer bases the Finnsburg fragment on an orally transmitted "Urlied" from the 5th century. The name Sigiferth could therefore have already existed during the migration period.
name day
The name day of Siegbert is the 1. February .
variants
Sigbert, Sigibert , Siegbrecht, Sigisbert, Sigeberht , Sibert , Suitbert
Well-known namesake
Form Siegbert
- Siegbert Alber (* 1936), German politician
- Siegbert Amler (1929–2019), German sculptor and graphic artist
- Siegbert Hahn (* 1937), German painter
- Siegbert Horn (1950–2016), German canoeist , Olympic champion and world champion in canoe slalom
- Siegbert Joseph (1894–1944), German gynecologist
- Siegbert Kahn (1909–1976), German Marxist economist
- Siegbert Keller (1937–2015), German architect and building economist
- Siegbert Morscher (* 1939), Austrian lawyer
- Siegbert Rampe (* 1964), German harpsichordist, organist, pianist, conductor and musicologist
- Siegbert Rotholz (1919–1943), German civil rights activist during the National Socialist era
- Siegbert Schefke (* 1959), German journalist
- Siegbert Schmeißer (* 1957), German racing cyclist
- Siegbert Stehmann (1912–1945), German Protestant pastor and poet
- Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), German chess grandmaster
- Siegbert A. Warwitz (* 1937), German philologist , sports scientist , experimental psychologist , venture researcher , author
- Siegbert Wolf (* 1954), German historian, political scientist and publicist
- Siegbert Wortmann (* 1955), German computer pioneer
Form Sigbert
- Sigbert Ganser (1853–1931), German psychiatrist
- Sigbert Heister (1646–1718), Austrian field marshal
- Sigbert Prais (1928–2014), British economist and mathematician from Germany
- Sigbert Ramsauer (1909-1991), an Austrian SS - doctor
- Sigbert Wagener (1919–2004), German Capuchin , priest , educator , scientist and conservationist
literature
- Felix Genzmer: Beowulf and the Finnsburg fragment. Reclam, Stuttgart 1951, DNB 450362450 .
- W. Laur: The heroic legend of the Finnsburg fight. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature. Vol. 85, No. 2, 1954, pp. 107-136.
- Siegbert Warwitz: The old Germanic hero poetry and its relationship to the hero saga. Münster 1963, pp. 14-17.
- Gernot Wieland: Finnsburg fragment . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , column 483 with further literature.