Wolfgang
Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany and Austria. Its earliest known bearer was a tenth century saint. The name is a combination of the Old High German word wulf, meaning "wolf" and gang, meaning "path". Grimm (Teutonic Mythology p. 1093) interpreted the name as that of a hero in front of whom walks the "wolf of victory". A Latin gloss by Arnoldus Emmeramensis interprets the name as Lupambulus.[1]
Notable people called "Wolfgang" include:
- Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1492-1566)
- Wolfgang Bauer, name of at least three notable people
- Wolfgang Bolyai (1775-1856), Hungarian mathematician
- Wolfgang Borchert German author and playwright
- Wolfgang Flür German musician, member of Kraftwerk
- Wolfgang Gartner, an Electro House DJ
- Wolfgang Hawkes, Progressive gaffiti artist
- Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist
- Wolfgang Klietmann, German pathologist, microbiologist, and businessman
- Wolfgang Kosack, German Egyptologist
- Wolfgang Kuck, German volleyball player
- Wolfgang Langewiesche, German aviation expert and author
- Wolfgang Leonhard, German professor and expert on communism
- Wolfgang Loitzl, Austrian ski jumper
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
- Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist
- Wolfgang Petersen German film director
- Wolfgang Preiss, German actor
- Wolfgang Puck American chef
- Wolfgang Priklopil Austrian criminal
- Wolfgang of Regensburg Bavarian bishop and Catholic saint
- Wolfgang Reitherman German-American animator of classic Disney films
- Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violinist) (1915-2002), Austrian violinist
- Wolfgang Schneiderhan (general) (born 1946), German general
- Wolfgang Van Halen American Musician and member of Van Halen
- Wolfgang von Kempelen Hungarian author and inventor
- Wolfgang von Leyden German philosopher
- Wolfgang Wagner (1919-2010), German opera director
- Wolfgang Weichselbaumer, hurdy-gurdy craftsman
- Wolfgang Werlé, German murderer
- Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, 16th-century Duke of Zweibrücken
See also
References
- ^ E. Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch (1856), p. 1347.