Dionysius
Dionysius or Denis is a male Greek first name.
Origin and Meaning
It is one of the usual in ancient Greece consecration names given to the infants directly to the protection of a god, in this case, Dionysos, assume (see Demetrios < Demeter; Apollonius < Apollon; Aphrodisios < Aphrodite ). Therefore, the name means " the Dionysian, Dionysus Sanctified ". In modern Greek, similar developments are found ( Panagiotis < Panageía " the Holy of Holies ," the Virgin Mary; Stavros < to Stavro " the [ Holy ] Cross"; Sotirios < AltGr Soter " Saviour ."; Christos < o Christós "Jesus Christ" ) who are only too well known, moreover, in Italian ( Salvatore ) and Spanish (Jesus).
Variants
Modern versions of the name include, among other French Denys or Denis ( Denise feminine form ), Eng. Dennis, it. Dionigi, Spanish Dionisio, port. Dinis, or Diniz, Hung, Dénes and Frisian Nys (also Nyss, NYSS, Nis, Niss or Niss, hence the name Nyssen or nits ).
Well-known bearers of the name
( in time ascending order ):
- Dionysius I of Syracuse, tyrant ( 430-367 BC)
- Dionysius II of Syracuse, tyrant ( 367-344 BC)
- Dionysius of Heraclea ( 360 BC to 305 BC)
- Dionysius of Chalcedon ( 350 BC ), philosopher
- Dionysius Metathemenos ( 4th and 3rd century), disciple of Zeno
- Dionysius Iambos ( around 250 BC ), Alexandrian grammarians
- Dionysius of Alexandria ( astronomer ) (3rd century BC), Alexandrian astronomer
- Dionysius ( ambassador ) (3rd century BC), Minister of Ptolemy II to India
- Dionysius Skytobrachion ( Lederarm ), Alexandrian Mythograph ( ≈ 200 BC)
- Dionysius of Byzantium, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century BC
- Dionysius Thrax ( the Thracian ) ( about 180 /170 to 90 BC ), Greek grammarian
- Dionysius Petosarapis (2nd century BC), Egyptian philosopher and leader of a rebellion about 168-64 BC
- Dionysius, Indo- Greek king ( ≈ 50 BC )
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Greek scholar (1st century BC)
- Dionysius of Heliopolis, the Greek soothsayers and interpreters of dreams
- Dionysius, Greek epic poet and author of the Bassa Rika
- Dionysius the Areopagite, the first bishop of Athens in the 1st century
- Dionysius Periegetes, wrote a description of the world as a poem ( by 124 )
- Dionysius of Corinth ( about 170/2 c.)
- Dionysius of Vienne ( † 193), Bishop of Vienne
- Dionysius of Alexandria (c. 180-264 ), bishop of Alexandria
- Dionysius of Augsburg, also: Zosimus, legendary first bishop of Augsburg, was regarded as uncle of the Holy Afra of Augsburg
- Dionysius of Paris ( Saint Denis ), Bishop of Paris, martyr ( † after 250)
- Dionysius ( bishop of Rome) († 268), Bishop of Rome ( 259-268 )
- Dionysius of Milan ( † 355-375 ), Bishop of Milan
- Dionysius Exiguus (c. 470-540 ), a Dacian monk, go back to the parts of the Christian era
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500), theologian, posing as the Areopagite converted by Paul
- Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell Mahre, whose work was mistakenly attributed to Dionysius of Tell Mahre in 8th century chronicler writing,
- Dionysius of Tell Mahre († 848 ), a former head of the Syrian Jacobite Church
- Dionysius bar Salibi ( 1171 )
- Dionysius of Melatia ( † after 1259 ), Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch
- Dionysius ( Portugal) ( 1261-1325 ), King of Portugal (Dom Dinis )
- Dionysius of Montina (14th century)
- Dionysius the Carthusian (also: D. Rijckel, D. Leeuwen, 1402-1471 )
- Dionysius a Navitate Domini (1600-1638), French - Portuguese Carmelite priest and martyr, real name Pierre Berthelot
- Dionysius of Werl (1640-1709)
- Dionysius of Luxembourg (1652-1703)
- Christoph Dionysius of Seeger (1740-1808), one of the earliest teachers and a principal organizer of the High Karlsschule
- Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), Irish physicist, mathematician and encyclopedist
- Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, maiden name of Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), Irish- American playwright, writer and actor
- Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857), Greek poet
- Dionysius Lavrangas (1864-1941), Greek violinist, conductor and composer