Hedwig (name)

Hedwig is a mostly female first name. The name comes from the Old High German ( Haduwig ) and is hadu from, "the battle, the battle " and wig, " struggle, the fight, the war " together. Are known in German and English variants Hedi, Hedy, Edwige French, Scandinavian Hedvig, Slovak and Czech Hedvika, Polish Jadwiga.

Name winners

First name

Haduwy

  • Haduwy of Herford ( Hedwig; * to 810/811, † 887 ), in front of 858-887 Abbess of Herford woman pin

Hadwig

  • Hadwig (Swabia ) (c. 939-994 ), Duchess of Swabia
  • Hadwig of Saxony ( † 959 ), wife of Hugo the Great and sister of Emperor Otto the Great

Hathwig

  • Hathwig (Essen), abbess of Essen

Hedwig

  • Hedwig of Andechs (1174-1243), Duchess of Silesia, Silesian Holy
  • Hedwig of Anjou (1373-1399), Queen of Poland and the Holy
  • Hedwig of Ballenstedt (~ 1140-1203 ), Margravine of Meissen
  • Hedwig von Beit (1896-1973), German narrative and fairy tale researcher
  • Hedwig Courths Mahler (1867-1950), German writer
  • Hedwig of good stone († 1285? ), And Cistercian abbess of the monastery forest
  • Hedwig Jagiellonica (1457-1502), Princess of Poland, Duchess of Bavaria
  • Hedwig Jagiellonica (1513-1573), Princess of Poland, Electress of Brandenburg
  • Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, artist name Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), Austrian actress
  • Hedwig Kohn (1887-1964), German physicist
  • Hedwig Munck ( born 1955 ), German children's author
  • Hedwig of Münsterberg - Oels (1508-1531), by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg -Ansbach - Kulmbach
  • Hedwig of Saxony (1445-1511), daughter of the Elector Frederick of Saxony, Abbess of Quedlinburg
  • Hedwig of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1595-1650), Duchess of Pomerania
  • Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1592-1642), Duchess of Brunswick- Lüneburg and wife of Count Ernst Casimir Diezer

Jadvyga

  • Jadvyga, Lithuanian

Jadwiga

  • Jadwiga Barańska ( b. 1935 ), Polish actress
  • Jadwiga Grabowska - Hawrylak (* 1920), Polish architect
  • Jadwiga Jankowska - Cieślak ( born 1953 ), Polish actress
  • Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (1912-1980), Polish tennis player
  • Jadwiga Lipińska (1932-2009), Polish Egyptologist
  • Jadwiga Łuszczewska (1834-1908), Polish writer
  • Jadwiga Sarnecka († 1913), Polish composer
  • Jadwiga Wajs (1912-1990), Polish athlete
  • Jadwiga Zakrzewska ( born 1950 ), Polish politician

Family name

  • Johannes Hedwig (1730-1799), German botanist and physician; Founder of modern Bryology
  • Romanus Adolf Hedwig (1772-1806), German botanist

Art figures

  • A snow owl and pet of Harry Potter in the eponymous novels, see animals of the Harry Potter novels
  • The main character of the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Female first name
  • Family name
  • Germanic personal name
Hedwig of Silesia Hedwig of Brandenburg Johann Hedwig Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)
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