Balthazar (given name)
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Balthazar (also spelled Balthasar, Balthassar, or Baltazar), from Phoenician 𐤓𐤅𐤔𐤅-𐤓𐤀𐤔-𐤕𐤀𐤋𐤀𐤁 Balat-shar-usur,meaning "Baal protects the King" is the name commonly attributed to one of the Three Wise Men, at least in the west. Though no names are given in the Gospel of Matthew, this was one of the names the Western church settled on in the 8th century, based on the original meaning, though other names were used by Eastern churches (for more information see Biblical Magi). It is an alternate form of the Babylonian king Belshazzar, mentioned in the Book of Daniel.
- People with the name
- Balthazar Alvarez (1533–1580) Spanish Catholic mystic
- Balthasar Bekker (1634–1698) Dutch philosopher
- Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) Italian Renaissance author
- Baltasar Corrada del Río, Puerto Rican politician
- Balthasar Eggenberger (??–1493) Austrian entrepreneur and financier in the Holy Roman Empire
- Baltasar Garzón, Spanish judge
- Balthasar Gérard, assassin of William I of Orange
- Balthazar Getty, American actor and great grandson of J. Paul Getty
- Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Baroque prose writer
- Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988), Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and priest
- Balthasar Hubmaier, German Anabaptist leader
- Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (1908–2001) birth name of twentieth-century artist Balthus
- Baltasar Lopes da Silva, Cape Verdean writer
- Balthazar P. Melick, founder of Chemical Bank
- Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- Balthasar Ferdinand Moll (1717–1785) Baroque sculptor
- Balthasar de Monconys (1611–1665) French magistrate
- Balthasar Moncornet (c. 1600–1668), French graver
- Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753) German engineer and architect
- Balthasar Oomkens von Esens, 16th century Frisian rebel (two of whose brothers were named Caspar and Melchior)
- Balthasar Russow, Estonian chronicler
- Balthazar Willard, artist and creator of mind-painting
- Baltazar Téllez (1596–1675), Jesuit historian of Ethiopia
- Balthazar Johannes Vorster, apartheid-era South African Prime Minister and President
See also
- Balthazar (disambiguation)