Reinhold
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| Reinhold | |
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| Family name | |
| Pronunciation | rine-holt |
| Meaning | "wise ruler" |
| Region of origin | Scandinavia, Germany |
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Reinhold is a German, Scandinavian surname and male given name.[1] This Germanic name is composed of two elements: the first is from ragin, meaning "counsel", "power" + wald meaning "ruler". The second element having been reinterpreted as hold meaning "dear", "beloved" in the 16th century.[2]
This name was brought to the British Isles by Viking conquerors, in the form of the Old Norse Rögnvaldr. In the 11th century, the Normans further established this name as Reinald and Reynaud.[3] There are other spelling variations of this surname, but all have the same etymological Germanic origin.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Erasmus Reinhold, 16th-century German astronomer; the lunar crater Reinhold is named after him
- Hugo Reinhold (1854–1935), Austrian composer and pianist
- Judge Reinhold, American actor
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold, 18th/19th-century Austrian philosopher
- Meyer Reinhold (1909–2002), American classical scholar
People with the given name include:
- Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), Russian and Soviet composer
- Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
- Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer
- Reinhold Mitterlehner (born 10 December 1955), Austrian politician
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971), American theologian, public intellectual, and commentator
- Reinhold Remmert, German mathematician
- Reinhold Saulmann (1895–1936), Estonian Olympic sprinter
- Reinhold Tiling (1893–1933), German engineer, pilot and rocket pioneer
- Reinhold Würth, German businessman
- Reinhold Weege, American television writer, producer and director
- Reinhold Hoffmann, a character in Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz
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References
- ↑ Kruken, Kristoffer; Stemshaug, Ola (1995), Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, p. 207, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
- ↑ Discover the meaning and history behind your last name, Ancestry.com, retrieved 25 November 2013 which cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 for the surname "Reinhold".
- ↑ Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006), A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.), London: Routledge, p. 2626, ISBN 0-203-99355-1
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