Urian
Urian is an old male given name of Celtic origin, which also occurs as a surname .
variants
- Urbian
- Urion
- Urian
- Ures
- Urien
origin
The name is first mentioned in The Hundred Rolls of Huntingdonshire where a John, "son of Urian" is mentioned in 1273. The original form of the name in Old British was Urbgen . As a surname, Hurhion is first mentioned in 1687 in Tonbridge, Kent. The surname also occurs as Urian, especially in the Anglo-Saxon region. Today the first name Urian is rarely given.
One of the mythical British kings named by Geoffrey von Monmouth was Urbianus , who possibly goes back to Urien (also Uryen) King of Rheged , who also appears as king of the legendary circle around Arthur .
In the apocryphal book of Enoch , Urian appears as the name form of the archangel Uriel .
Mr. Urian
Since the 17th century , "Herr Urian" or "Hans Urian" has been used in German to refer to a booby, an undesirable guest or someone for whom one has little respect; you call this person that when you didn't expect him. Encounters with Mr. Urian are generally undesirable.
"Mr. Urian" or "Master Urian" is also used to describe the devil in a joking or euphemistic way. This usage is known from Goethe's Faust (Walpurgis Night):
- Draw the witches to the boulder,
- The stubble is yellow, the seed is green.
- There the big crowd gathers
- Mr. Urian is sitting on top.
Also well-known is the poem Urian's Journey around the World by Matthias Claudius with the opening lines “If someone goes on a journey / So he can count something”. The refrain is:
- He didn't do it badly;
- Please keep miscounting Mr. Urian!
Furthermore, "Urian" can be found in the life views of the cat Murr from ETA Hoffmann as a term for an undesired guest:
- 'Stop', I thought in my mind. 'You will catch Urian after all' [...]
Further examples from the literature:
- André Gide : The Journey of Urian (story, 1893)
- Lisa Tetzner : Hans Urian or The Story of a World Tour (novel, 1929)
- Kurt Bachor : Urian, the boar from the Kesselloch (animal story, 1967)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See 1 Enoch 9.1. See also: Gustav Davidson: A dictionary of angels: including the fallen angels. New York 1971, p. 98
- ^ Entry in the Economic Encyclopedia by Johann Georg Krünitz
- ↑ Johann Christoph Adelung : Grammatical-critical dictionary of the high German dialect. Bd. 4, Leipzig 1801, sv Der Urian
- ^ Text of the poem by Matthias Claudius "Urian's Journey Around the World"
- ↑ ETA Hoffmann: & # 143; "Views of the life of the cat Murr" - Chapter 21