Notker

Notker (also Notger ) is an old German male first name.

Origin

The name comes from the Old High German syllables "not" ( distress in combat) and "ger" ( spear ) together.

Dissemination

The name was rare even in the late Middle Ages.

Well-known bearers of the name

• Famous monks of the monastery of St. Gall ( also Notkere of St. Gallen called ): Called Notker I. Balbulus (around 840-912 ), poet and scholar, Notker the Stammerer
• Notker II Physicus (the doctor ) or Piperisgranum ( peppercorn ) ( 937-975 ), physician, painter and scholar
• Notker III. Labeo ( the German; around 952-1022 ), poet, scholar and translator

• Other persons with this name: Notger from Liege ( † 1008), nephew of the emperor Otto I. and Bishop of Liège
• Notker Becker (1883-1978 in ), sacral artist and Benedictine
• Notker Hammerstein ( * 1930), German historian
• Notger Slenczka (* 1960), German Protestant theologian
• Notker Wolf ( born 1940 ), Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order

Swell

• Margit Eberhard- Wabnitz & Horst Leisenring - Knaurs name the book - Droemersche Publishing Company, 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8
• Günther Drosdowski - Duden Dictionary of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand names, Bibliographical Institute ( Duden ), Mannheim / Wien / Zurich 1974

• Male first name