Gustav (name)
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Gustav or Gustaf is a male given name of Old Swedish origin, means "staff of the Goths," derived from the Old Norse elements Gautr ("Goth") and stafr ("staff"). This name has been borne by six Kings of Sweden, including the 16th-century Gustav Vasa. It is a common name for Swedish monarchs since the reign of Gustav Vasa.
The name has entered other languages as well. In French it is Gustave; in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, Gustavo. The Latinised form is Gustavus. A side form of the name in Swedish is Gösta. The name in Finnish is Kustaa. In German, it is also Gustav or Gustaf.
[edit] People
- Gustav II Adolf Gustavus Adolphus, Swedish king and praised military leader during the Thirty Year War, "The Lion of the North"
- Gustav III, king who highly influenced the arts of Sweden during the Neo-Classical era and who temporarily reinstated absolute monarchy
- Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
- Gustav V
- Gustav VI Adolf
- Carl XVI Gustaf, current king of Sweden
- Gustav Klimt, important Austrian Symbolist painter of the Vienna Secession
- Gustav Holst, British composer
- Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and director
- Gustav Fröding, Swedish author and poet
- Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, scientist for whom the Coriolis effect is named
- Gustaf Dalén, Swedish inventor and Nobel Prize laureate
- Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Madame Bovary)
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet
- Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist
- Gustav de Laval, Swedish engineer, inventor and entrepreneur
- Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower
- Gustav Hamel, pioneer aviator
- Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and black-body radiation
- Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born Canadian Special Operations Executive agent during World War II
- Gustave Whitehead, German-American aviator
- Gustav Spörer, German astronomer
- Gustav Jäger, German naturalist and teacher of zoology
- Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and physicist
- Gustav Schäfer drummer of the German rock band Tokio Hotel
- Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia
- Gustav Bertha, Scottish singer-songwriter
[edit] In fiction
- Gustav (Zoids), transportation mecha from the Zoids fictional universe
- Gustav (Sesamstraße) character from the German version of Sesame Street, equivalent to Oscar the Grouch's pet worm, Slimey
- Gustav Graves, villain in the James Bond series
- Gustav & Gustav, Norwegian comic
- Gustav Griswold, character from Recess (TV series)
- Gustave Daae, character from The Phantom of the Opera
[edit] See also
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