Jodocus
Jodok is a male first name.
Importance
The name has its origin probably in the Celtic iud for " fighter ", " warrior " or "Lord."
Variants
- Jodokus, Jodocus, Judocus, Judochus, Jodock
- Jobst, Jost, Joost, Jos, Joos, Johs, Johst, Joszt ( Hungarian version )
- Josse, Jocelyn, Jocelyne, Josselin, Josseline, Josquin (French )
- Joist, Joyce (English )
Name-day
Well-known bearers of the name
- St. Jodok ( 600 to 670 ), Breton hermit and monastic founder
- Jobst of Moravia (1351-1411), Roman- German King
- Jost of silenes (* 1435-1445; † 1498), Bishop of Grenoble and customs
- Jobst Nicholas I (Hohenzollern ) ( 1433-1488 ), Count of Hohenzollern
- Jodocus Trutfetter (also: Jodocus of Eisenach, Jodocus Isenacensis, Justus Traut cousin, Dr. Eisenach * 1460, † 1519), German Catholic theologian and philosopher
- Jodokus brother OSB (1442-1529), abbot of the later imperial abbey Ochsenhausen
- Jodocus badius (1462-1535), Flemish printer
- Jodocus Caesem († 1664), priest and abbot of the monastery of Marienfeld
- Jodok Ludwik Decjusz (around 1485-1545 ), Polish humanist
- Jodocus Koch, known as Justus Jonas the Elder (1493-1555), German reformer
- Jost Hoen (around 1500-1569 ), German educator
- Jobst Brandt (1517-1570), German composer
- Jost Amman (1539-1591), Swiss- German engraver
- Jodocus Lorichius (1540-1612), German theologian
- Jodocus van Winghe (* 1542/44, † 1603), Flemish painter
- Jost Bürgi (1558-1632), Swiss watchmaker and astronomer
- Jodokus Hodfilter (also Hodefilter; 1500-1551 ), Bishop of Lübeck
- Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), Flemish cartographer
- Jodokus Jost (about 1589 to before 1657), Swiss farmer and chronicler
- Jodocus Andreas Hiltebrandt (1667-1746), German Protestant theologian
- Jodocus Nünning Hermann (1675-1753), German historian and antiquarian
- Kaspar Jodok of Stockalperschloss (1609-1691), Swiss politician and businessman
- Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme (1798-1881), German politician, lawyer and writer
- Jodocus Stülz (1799-1872), Austrian historian
- Jost Christian of Stolberg- Roßla senior (1676-1739), Count of Stolberg- Roßla
- Jodok Fink (1853-1929), Austrian politician, Vice-Chancellor 1919-1920
- Jodok, pseudonym for Hanns of Gumppenberg (1866-1928), German cabaret artist ( The Eleven Executioners )
- Jost Trier (1894-1970), German in German studies ( doctorate on the veneration of St. Jodok and the distribution of the name )
- Wolf Jobst Siedler (1926-2013), German journalist and publisher
- Jost Vacano (* 1934), German cameraman
- Jobst Plog (* 1941), German journalist and director
- Jost Pieper, (* 1972), German actor
- Jobst Hirscht (* 1948), German track and field athlete
- Jost Vishnevsky (* 1962), German sculptor and installation artist
Literary figures
- Extract and return the Jodok Fink of John Freumbichler, 1942
- Jodok says hi by Peter Bichsel, in: Children's Stories, 1969
- Alfred Jodocus Kwak, title character of a musical fable of Hermann van Veen and based on this animated series
- Think off Joost from Sesame Street
Place names
- Saint- Josse- sur -Mer, Pas- de -Calais, France
- Saint- Judoce, department Côtes- d'Armor, France
- Saint-Josse-ten-Noode/Sint-Joost-ten-Node, District of Brussels
- St. Jodok am Brenner, district municipalities Schmirn and Vals in Tirol
- St. Joost, community Stinstedt, Lower Saxony
- St. Jost, community Langenfeld ( Eifel)
- Jobst, district of Bad Blumau
- Jostberg, Hill in Bielefeld
- Jost height and Jostweg in Hamburg
Churches
See Jodokuskirche