Alphons
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Germanic languages |
| Meaning | "Noble brave" |
| Popularity | see popular names |
Alphons (Latinized Alphonsus, Adelphonsus, or Adefonsus) is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Hispanic and Portuguese royal families.[1]
It is derived from a Gothic name, or a conflation of several Gothic names; from *Aþalfuns, composed of the elements aþal "noble" and funs "eager, brave, ready", and perhaps influenced by names such as *Alafuns, *Adefuns and *Hildefuns. It is recorded as Adefonsus in the 9th and 10th centuries,[2] and as Adelfonsus, Adelphonsus in the 10th and 11th. The reduced form Alfonso is recorded in the late 9th century, and the Portuguese form Afonso from the early 11th[3][4] and Anfós in Catalan from the 12th century until the 15th.[5]
Variants of the name include: Alonso (Spanish), Alfonso (Spanish and Italian), Alfons (Dutch, German, Catalan, Polish, Croatian and Scandinavian), Afonso (Portuguese and Galician), Alphonse, Alfonse (French and English), etc.
Alfons
[edit]- Alfons Almi (1904–1991), Finnish opera singer and administrator
- Alfons van Blaaderen (born 1963), Dutch physicist
- Alfons Geleyns (1887–1914), Belgian private
- Alfons Goppel (1905–1991), German politician
- Alfons Gorbach (1898–1972), Austrian politician
- Alfons Grotowski (1833–1922), Polish engineer
- Alfons Jēgers (1919–1999), Latvian football and hockey player
- Alfons Karpiński (1875–1961), Polish painter
- Prince Alfons of Liechtenstein (born 2001), Liechtensteiner financial analyst
- Alfons Rebane (1908–1976), Estonian military commander
- Alfons Rissberger (born 1948), German author
Alphons
[edit]- Alphons Barb (1901–1979), Austrian academic, archaeologist, numismatist, museum director and author
- Alphons Bellesheim (1839–1912), German church historian nicknamed "Alphons"
- Alphons Boosten (1893–1951), Dutch architect
- Alphons Czibulka (1842–1894), Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster, composer, pianist and conductor
- Alphons Diepenbrock (1862–1921), Dutch composer, essayist and classicist
- Alphons Egli (1924–2016), Swiss attorney and politician
- Alphons Kannanthanam (born 1953), Indian civil servant, advocate and politician
- Alphons Koechlin (1821–1893), Swiss politician and President of the Swiss Council of States
- Alphons Leopold Mielich (1863–1929), Austrian painter
- Alphons Orie (born 1947), Dutch jurist
- Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen (1843–1932), German noble
- Alphons Maximilian Pfyffer von Altishofen (1834–1890), Swiss architect, hotelier and military Chief of Staff
- Alphons Silbermann (1909–2000), German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist
- Alphons Stübel (1835–1904), German geologist and naturalist
- Alphons Timmerman (1904–1942), Belgian World War II spy for the Germans
- Alphons Wijnen (1912–2001), Dutch officer in charge during the Rawagede massacre of Indonesian civilians
Stage name
[edit]- Alfons, stage name of Emmanuel Peterfalvi, a French comedian
Fictional characters
[edit]- Alfie Atkins, known as Alfons Åberg in Swedish, character created by Gunilla Bergström from Sweden
- Alfons Heiderich from Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. I (9th ed.). 1878. pp. 615–619.
- ↑ In the genitive, Adefonsi.
- ↑ José Pedro Machado, Dicionário Onomástico Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa
- ↑ E. Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch (1856:133, 145).
- ↑ Diccionari d'Història de Catalunya; 62nd ed.; Barcelona; 1998; ISBN 84-297-3521-6; p. 25.
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