Reinhold

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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" and 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
• Johann Heinrich Carl Reinhold (1788–1825), German painter and engraver.

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
• Reinhold Erwin, an intelligent person, entomologist and orchestra director

See also

• Reynold
• Rognvald
• Reginald (given name)

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