Walburga (first name)
Walburga is a German female given name .
Origin and meaning
Walburg , originally Waltpurc , Latinized Walburga or Walburgis , is a two-part Germanic name. The first name element Walt- dates back to the Old High German. Waltan prevail 'back, the second part at ahd. Burg , castle, refuge, protection'. The first name Walburga is rarely found in the German-speaking world today; it is most common in southern Germany and Austria.
variants
- Walburg, Walpurga, Walburgis, Walpurgis, Valpuri (Finnish)
name day
Well-known namesake
Walburga / Walburgis
- Walburga (around 710–779 / 80), abbess in Heidenheim in Franconia, saint of the Catholic Church
- Walburga von Heerse (around 868), founder and first abbess of the noble women's monastery in Heerse (today Bad Driburg-Neuenheerse ) near Paderborn
- Walburga Beutl (* 1946), Austrian politician (ÖVP)
- Walburga Feiden (* 1940), German politician (SPD), mayor of Bad Honnef
- Walburga Fricke (* 1936), Bavarian politician (CSU)
- Walburga Habsburg Douglas (* 1958), German-Swedish lawyer and politician, member of the Swedish Reichstag since 2006
- Walburga von Hohenthal (1839–1929), court lady at the Prussian royal court and author
- Walburga Külz (1921–2002), German ceramicist
- Walburga Litschauer (* 1954), Austrian musicologist and Schubert expert
- Walburga von Manderscheid (* 1468, † after October 1530) was a German noblewoman
- Walburga "Dolly" Austria (1864 or 1870–1961), American housewife and main protagonist in one of the most bizarre murder cases in criminal history
- Walburga Wegner (1908–1993), German opera singer
Walpurgis / Walpurga
- Walburgis (Rietberg) (1555 / 56–1586), Countess von Rietberg 1565–1576 and 1584–1586
- Walpurga housewife (* 1510/1527; † 1587) was a Bavarian midwife. burned for alleged witchcraft
- Walpurga Schindl (1826–1872), Tyrolean poet
Intermediate name
- Anna Maria Walburga Mozart (1720–1778), mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (1751–1829), Mozart's sister "Nannerl"
- Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kluge. Etymological dictionary. 24th edition 2002, sv Walpurgis Night . Wilfried Seibicke: German Historical First Name Book , Berlin 1996–2006; Rosa and Volker Kohlheim: The large first name dictionary, Duden-Verlag Mannheim 2003; Henning Kaufmann: Old German personal names , supplementary volume (on Ernst Förstemann: Old German name book , first volume, Munich, reprint of the second edition 1966), p. 378 ff.