Wilbrand (name)
Wilbrand is a northern German first name and family name .
Origin and spelling
The name Wilbrand can be found in different spellings, including Wilbrand, Willibrand, Wil (d) brand or Wilbrand (t).
The origin of the name is Old High German or Old Saxon willio with the meaning “will, desire, desire” and brand “fire, flaming sword”. Another possible origin of the name is also Old High German ( willo + brand ) with the meaning "sword wound ".
Name bearer
Wilbrand or Wulbrand is the given name of the following people:
- Wilbrand von Käfernburg (also Wulbrand or Hildebrand; 1180–1253), from 1235 to 1253 Archbishop of Magdeburg
- Wilbrand I of Loccum-Hallermund (1120–1167), last Count of Hallermund
- Wilbrand von Oldenburg (before 1180–1233), bishop of Paderborn and Utrecht
- Wulbrand von Hallermund († 1436), Abbot of Corvey and Bishop of Minden
Wilbrand is the family name of the following people:
- Christopher Wilbrand (* 1965), German chef
- Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand (1811–1894), German forensic doctor
- Hermann Wilbrand (1851–1935), German ophthalmologist
- Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846), German physician, physiologist and natural philosopher
- Julius Wilbrand (medic) (1779–1846), German medic
- Julius Wilbrand (1839–1906), German chemist, first synthesis of TNT
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wilfried Seibicke: First names , 3rd edition. Publishing house for registry offices, Berlin / Frankfurt a. M. 2002, ISBN 978-3-8019-5683-7 , p. 247.
- ^ A b Lutz Mackensen: The big book of first names , Südwest Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 7th edition, Munich, 1990, ISBN 3-517-01204-1 , p. 202.
- ^ Hans Bahlow, Deutsches Namenlexikon , 3rd edition. Suhrkamp Verlag, Munich 1977.