Philemon

Philemon [file mɔn ː ] is a male first name.

Variants

  • Phil (short form)
  • Philémon (French )
  • Filemon ( Polish)
  • Phile
  • Philmon or Filmon ( Eritrean )

Origin and Meaning

The first name Philemon comes from the Greek and means of friendly.

Name-day

November 22 Apostles Philemon

Well-known bearers of the name / names winners

  • Philemon (around 360 to 264 BC ), Greek poet. Wrote plays in Athens, according to Menander in the style of " New Comedy "
  • Philemon ( 1st century AD), biblical person to whom the Letter to Philemon the Apostle Paul is directed.
  • Tito Aurelios Philemon Philades, Archon of Athens ( 158-159 AD)
  • Philemon (? D. 305), martyrs and saints ( Memorial Day March 8 ); Model for Jacob Bidermanns piece Philemon Martyr
  • Philemon Holland (1552-1637), English translator
  • Philemon (David Nerreters Order Name in Pegnesischern flower north) ( 1649-1726 ), General Superintendent in Pomerania
  • Philemon Ewer (1702-1750), English shipbuilders (eg HMS Salisbury, on the James Lind Scurvy explored )
  • Philemon Dickinson (1739-1809), American politician ( Senator 1790-1793)
  • Philemon Wright (1760-1839), Canadian businessman, founder of Wrightsville ( later Hull in Quebec, today: Gatineau )
  • Philemon Thomas (1763-1847), American politician ( Congressman 1831-1835 )
  • Philemon Beecher (1776-1839), American lawyer and congressman
  • Philemon, rum Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (1766-1767)
  • Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862), American Congressman
  • Philemon Paul Maria ( Arenberg ) (1788 - ), son of Ludwig Engelbert ( Arenberg ), honorary canon to Namur
  • Philemon Bliss (1813-1889), American judge and politician
  • Philemon T. Herbert (1825-1864), American congressman (1855-1857)
  • Philemon Beecher Van Trump (1839-1916), American mountaineer ( first ascent of Mount Rainier )
  • Nathan Philemon Bryan (1872-1935), American politician ( Senator from 1911 to 1917 )
  • Philémon Cousineau (1874-1959), Canadian judge and politician
  • Alphaeus Philemon Cole (1876-1988), American artist
  • Filemon yElifas lyaShindondola, Ondonga King 1970-1975
  • Philémon Yunji Yang ( b. 1947 ), Cameroonian politicians
  • Philemon Wehbi, Lebanese composer and musician
  • Philemon Mukarno ( b. 1968 ), Dutch - Indonesian composer
  • Philemon Masinga (born 1969 ), South African soccer player
  • Philemon Hanneck (* 1971), simbabwisch-/US-amerikanischer long-distance runner
  • Philemon Kipkering Metto, Kenyan marathon runner ( winner of the South Tyrol Marathon 2006)
  • Filmon Ghirmai (* 1979), German hurdler
  • Filemon Wesselink ( b. 1979 ), Dutch television presenter for BNN
  • Bart Philemon ( b. 1945 ), politician of New Guinea Papua -

Literary figures

The name of Philemon is also known from the episode of Philemon and Baucis in Ovid's Metamorphoses. These figures attacked Goethe later in his Faust II, and they can occur in the fifth act. Similarly, using Max Frisch in his novel My Name sei Gantenbein, whose protagonists metaphorically slip into the roles of Philemon and Baucis the.

Philemon is also the name of a main character in Carl Wilhelm Frölich book about people and their relationships.

Furthermore Philémon is the name of a comic figure of the French cartoonist Fred Othon Aristides.

Filemon Faltenreich is the name of the elephant - philosophers in Michael Ende's book of the same.

Others

In biology, Philemon is the scientific name of the genus of the leather heads of the family of honey -eaters, such as noise leather head = Philemon corniculatus.

Philemon (New Testament person) Honeyeater Epistle to Philemon
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