Berthold
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Berthold or Bertolt is a Germanic given name, from berht "bright" and wald "rule".

People with the given name Berthold

  • Saint Berthold, 12th century, founder of the Carmelites
  • Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
    Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
    Berthold , of the Luitpolding dynasty, was the younger son of Margrave Luitpold of Bavaria and Cunigunda, sister of Duke Erchanger of Swabia. He followed his nephew Eberhard as Duke of Bavaria in 938....

  • Berthold of Garsten
    Berthold of Garsten
    Berthold of Garsten , also known as Blessed Berthold, is believed to be of the family of the Counts of Bogen and Vögte of Regensburg Cathedral. He was to begin with a Benedictine monk at St. Blaise's Abbey in the Black Forest and was then, in 1107, appointed prior at Göttweig Abbey...

    , 12th century prelate
  • Berthold of Parma
    Berthold of Parma
    Berthold was a Benedictine lay brother. Born in Parma, Italy, to Anglo-saxon parents, who escaped to Italy, from the Norman conquest of England. Berthold spent the majority of his life serving nuns in Parma, at the St. Alexander Convent.-References:...

    , 12th century Benedictine lay brother and saint
  • Berthold of Ratisbon
    Berthold of Ratisbon
    Berthold of Ratisbon was a Franciscan of the monastery of Ratisbon and the most powerful preacher of repentance in the thirteenth century.-Biography:He was born about 1210. He was probably a member of a well-to-do middle class family of Ratisbon named Sachs...

    , 13th century monk
  • Berthold Auerbach
    Berthold Auerbach
    Berthold Auerbach was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German “tendency novel,” in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.-Biography:Moses Baruch Auerbach was born in Nordstetten in the Kingdom...

     (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
  • Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

    , German dramatist
  • Berthold Lubetkin
    Berthold Lubetkin
    Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin was a Russian émigré architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s. His work includes the Highpoint housing complex, London Zoo penguin pool, Finsbury Health Centre and Spa Green Estate.-Early years:Berthold Lubetkin was born in Tiflis into a Jewish...

    , Russian architect
  • Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
    Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
    Berthold Alfred Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg was a German aristocrat, lawyer and conspirator in the 20 July plot of 1944, along with his brother, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, an army colonel...


People with the surname Berthold

  • Arnold Adolph Berthold
    Arnold Adolph Berthold
    Arnold Adolph Berthold or Arnold Adolf Berthold was a German physiologist and zoologist. He studied medicine in Göttingen in 1819 and wrote his thesis under the direction of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . Berthold became a private lecturer in 1825 and began to teach physiology at the University of...

     German physiologist and zoologist (1803-1861)
  • Avgust Berthold
    Avgust Berthold
    Avgust Berthold was a Slovenian photographer and impressionist.- Life and work :...

    , slovene photographer
  • David Berthold
    David Berthold
    David Berthold is a leading Australian theatre director. He has directed for most of Australia's major theatre companies, as well as internationally. Since November 2008, he has been Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of La Boite Theatre Company...

    , theatre director
  • Rudolph Berthold
    Rudolph Berthold
    Rudolf Berthold was a German World War I flying ace. Between 1916 and 1918 he shot down 44 enemy planes—most of them over the Belgian front. Berthold had the reputation as a ruthless, fearless and—above all—a very patriotic fighter...

    , WWI flying ace
  • Thomas Berthold
    Thomas Berthold
    Thomas Berthold is a German football coach and former defender.-Career:Berthold was born in Hanau, Hesse.He played 332 games in the Bundesliga, scoring 22 goals. He began his career in 1982 with Eintracht Frankfurt and played for them until 1987. From 1987 until 1991 he played in Italy: for Hellas...

    , soccer coach
  • Richard Berthold
    Richard Berthold
    Dr. Richard Berthold is a former tenured professor of classical history at the University of New Mexico. On the morning of September 11, 2001, while the terrorist attacks were still going on, he told two large freshman classes that "Anybody who blows up the Pentagon gets my vote." Initially, he...

    , American professor of history (retired)

Places

  • Berthold
    Berthold, North Dakota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 466 people, 170 households, and 131 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,214.7 people per square mile . There were 181 housing units at an average density of 471.8 per square mile...

    , North Dakota
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