Vitus
Veit is a male given name or family name in German-speaking countries. It is about the Germanization of the Latin Vitus .
Origin and meaning of the name
The name spread widely in the Middle Ages in memory of Saint Vitus , who lived as a pious man in the 3rd and 4th centuries and died a martyr. The name origin is uncertain, but may be derived from the Thracian of Bitus what "from Bithynia means". It is also believed that the name is derived from the Old High German vidu or vitu (= "wood", "forest") or that it goes back to the Middle Latin name Vitus with the possible meaning "willing". Because of the veneration of St. Vitus, the name was already widespread in the Middle Ages.
The Latin word (Latin: vita = "life") is translated as "full of life" or "the living one" or "dear little one". Vitus is one of the fourteen emergency helpers .
Name day (catholic)
Name day is June 15 - the feast day of Saint Vitus ( Saint Vitus Day ).
Name bearer
First name
Vitus
- Veit (saint) († around 304), martyr
- Veit von Fraunberg († 1567), Bishop of Regensburg
- Veit II von Würtzburg († 1577), from 1561 to 1577 Prince-Bishop of the Bamberg Monastery
- Veit Bach (≈1550–1619), ancestor of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Veit Dengler (* 1968), Austrian manager
- Veit Harlan (1899–1964), German actor and director
- Veit Heinichen (* 1957), German writer
- Veit Helmer (* 1968), German film director and film producer.
- Veit Lindau (* 1969), German author
- Veit Mette (* 1961), German photographer and photojournalist
- Veit zu Pappenheim (1535–1600), Imperial Hereditary Marshal
- Veit Relin (1926–2013), Austrian actor, screenwriter and director
- Veit Schalle (* 1942), Austrian manager and politician
- Veit Scherzer (* 1959), German religious scholar, author, editor and publisher
- Veit Schiffmann (* 1958), Austrian visual artist
- Veit Schubert (* 1960), German actor, director and lecturer for drama
- Veit Stolzenberger (* 1965), German oboist
- Veit Stoss (1447–1533), German sculptor and carver of the late Gothic
- Veit Stübner (* 1954), German actor
- Veit I. Truchseß von Pommersfelden († 1503), from 1501 to 1503 Prince-Bishop of the Bamberg Monastery
- Veit Valentin (pedagogue) (1842–1900), German art theorist and pedagogue
- Veit Valentin (historian) (1885–1947), German historian and university professor
- Veit Vendt († 1503), German Cistercian abbot
Veith
- Veith Ehrenstamm (approx. 1763–1827), Austrian industrialist
- Veith Steinböck (1656–1713), Austrian stonemason and sculptor
Vitus
- Vitus Auslasser (15th century), Benedictine monk at St. Sebastian's Monastery in Ebersberg near Munich
- Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish naval officer and explorer in Russian service
- Vitus Büscher ( Vitus Buscher ; 1602–1666), German Protestant theologian
- Joseph Vitus Burg (1768–1833), Bishop of Mainz
- Vitus Chang (1903–1982), Chinese bishop
- Vitus B. Dröscher (1925-2010), German non-fiction author
- Vitus Eicher (* 1990), German soccer player
- Vitus Heller (1882–1956), German left-Catholic publicist and politician
- Vitus Huonder (* 1942), Bishop of Chur
- Vitus Lüönd (* 1984), Swiss ski racer
- Vitus Nagorny (* 1978), German soccer player
- Vitus Sauer (1934–2018), German soccer player
family name
- Aloisia Veit (1891–1940), Adolf Hitler's great cousin and victim of Nazi murders
- August Veit ( August Emanuel Veit ; 1850–1931), Bohemian-Austrian conductor
- August von Veit (1861–1927), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
- Barbara Veit (lawyer) (* 1958), German lawyer
- Barbara Felizitas Veit (1947–2016), German journalist and writer, see Felicitas Mayall
- Carola Veit (* 1973), German politician (SPD)
- Christian Veit (1935–2011), German actor
- Christof Veit (* 1957), German doctor, head of the IQTIG
- Christoph Veit (* 1948), German general physician
- Daniel Veit (* 1975), German university professor
- David Veit (1771–1814), German doctor and writer
- Eberhard Veit (* 1962), German manager, CEO of Festo AG
- Eduard Veit (1824–1901), German banker
- Erich Veit (1896–1981), painter and etcher
- Flora Veit-Wild (* 1947), German orientalist, Africanist and university professor
- Friedrich Veit (1861–1948), German Protestant theologian and church president
- Friedrich Veit (pastor) (1888–1961), German Protestant pastor
- Georg Veit (General) , Prussian Major General
- Georg Veit (author) (* 1956), German cultural department head and writer
- Gottfried Veit (* 1943), South Tyrolean composer, clarinetist and conductor
- Günter Veit , Senior Managing Director of Veit GmbH (mechanical engineering, finishing and ironing technology), Landsberg / Lech
- Gustav Veit (1824–1903), German gynecologist and obstetrician
- Hannelore Veit (actually Hannelore Veit-Fauqueux ; * 1957), Austrian television presenter
- Hermann Veit (1897–1973), German politician (SPD)
- Ivo Veit (1910–1984), German radio director, actor and cabaret artist
- Johann Veit (1852–1917), German gynecologist and obstetrician
- Johannes Veit (before his baptism in 1810 Jonas Veit ; 1790–1854), German history painter
- Josef Veit (1850–1949), Austrian politician (CSP)
- Karin H. Veit (* 1948), Austrian theater director
- Karl Veit (1887 – after 1937), Austrian politician (SDAP)
- Klaus Veit (* 1955), German general in the army of the Bundeswehr
- Leopold Veit (1865–1928), German lawyer and writer
- Lothar Veit (* 1973), German journalist, author and songwriter
- Ludwig Veit (1920–1999), German historian and archive director
- Marie Veit (1921-2004), German Protestant theologian
- Mario Veit (* 1973), German boxer
- Martina Veit (* before 1969), German singer (soprano)
- Michael Veit (* 1953), German soccer player
- Moritz Veit (1808–1864), German author, publisher and politician
- Otto Veit (1898–1984), German economist
- Peter Veit (1883–1968), German-Thai composer, see Phra Chenduriyang
- Peter Veit (painter) (* 1942), German painter and sculptor
- Peter Veit (dubbing speaker) (* 1963), German dubbing and radio speaker
- Philipp Veit (1793–1877), German painter
- Raimund Veit (1785–1857), German agricultural scientist
- Reinhardt Veit , founder of Veit GmbH (mechanical engineering, finishing and ironing technology), Landsberg / Lech
- Rüdiger Veit (* 1949), German politician (SPD)
- Simon Veit (1754–1819), Berlin merchant and banker
- Sixten Veit (* 1970), German soccer player
- Sylvia Veit (* 1977), German administrative scientist
- Ulrich Veit (* 1960), German prehistoric
- Veronika Veit (Mongolist) (* 1944), German Mongolist and university professor
- Veronika Veit (artist) (* 1968), German artist
- Walter Veit (1929–2016), Austrian industrial engineer and university rector
- Walter Veit-Dirscherl (* 1936), German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- Wenzel Heinrich Veit (1806–1864), Czech composer
- Willi Veit (1904–1980), German sculptor
- Willibald Veit (* 1944), German art historian
- Winfried Veit (* 1946), German political scientist
stage name
- Veit (singer-songwriter) (* 1975), songwriter
Company name
- Veit GmbH , part of the Veit Group, world leader in mechanical engineering, finishing and ironing technology, Landsberg / Lech
variants
- Veith (family name; disambiguation)
- Veidt (family name; disambiguation)
- Vid (Slovenian, BKS )
- Vito (Italian)
See also
- Feit (disambiguation)
- Sankt Veit (disambiguation)
- Vitus (disambiguation)
- Witta
Web links
Wiktionary: Veit - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Vitus - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Duden: Lexicon of first names . ISBN 3-411-04944-8 . Page 299.
- ↑ Jakob Torsy, Hans-Joachim Kracht: The big name day calendar . ISBN 3-451-28240-2 . Page 185.
- ↑ The Vidova gora on Brač and St. Vitus. In: sms.zrc-sazu.si. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Maleno mjesto srca moga - V id - Sveti Vid. In: vid.hr. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
- ↑ limited preview in the Google book search
- ^ Large dictionary of Italian - Google Books. In: books.google.de. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .