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

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