Sigismund

Sigismund (variants: Sigmund, Siegmund) is a German proper name, meaning "protection through victory", from Old High German sigu "victory" + munt "hand, protection". Tacitus latinises it Segimundus. There appears to be an older form of the High German word "Sieg" (victory): sigis, obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form: sigi, which is Old Saxon or Old High German sigu (both from about 9th century). A 5th century Prince of Burgundy was known both as Sigismund and Sigimund (see Ernst Förstemann, Altdeutsche Personennamen, 1906; Henning Kaufmann, Altdeutsche Personennamen, Ergänzungsband, 1968). Its Hungarian equivalent is Zsigmond.

A Lithuanian name Žygimantas, meaning "wealth of (military) campaign", from Lithuanian žygis "campaign, march" + manta "goods, wealth",^[1]^{[unreliable source?]} has been a substitution of the name Sigismund in the Lithuanian language, from which^{[citation needed]} it was adopted by the Ruthenian language as Жыгімонт (such are the cases of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Sigismund Korybut, Sigismund I the Old, Sigismund II Augustus). The Polish spelling is Zygmunt, and the Serbo-Croatian variant is Žigmund.

People

European rulers

Saint Sigismund of Burgundy (died 523), King of the Burgundians
Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (died 1405)
Sigismund I the Old King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Sigismund II August King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Sigismund III Vasa King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, King of Sweden
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368–1437), also King of Hungary and King of Bohemia
Sigismund Kęstutaitis (c. 1365–1440), Grand Duke of Lithuania
Sigismund Korybut (c. 1395-c. 1435), Lithuanian duke who participated in Hussite Wars
Sigismund II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (died after 1452)
Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427–1496), ruler of Further Austria
Sigismund of Bavaria (1439–1501), Duke of Bavaria
Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566), Carniolan diplomat, writer, historian and member of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Council
Sigismund of Brandenburg (1538–1566), Prince-Archbishop of Magdeburg and Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt
Sigismund Rákóczi (died 1608), briefly Prince of Transylvania
Sigismund Báthory (1572–1613), Prince of Transylvania
Sigismund Francis of Austria (1630–1665), ruler of Further Austria
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866)
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978)
Ishak Bey Kraloğlu or Sigismund of Bosnia (born in the 1450s?), son of King Stephen Thomas of Bosnia
John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1572–1618)

Others

Sigismund Albicus (c. 1360–1427), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Prague
Sigismund Bachrich (1841–1913), Hungarian composer, violinist and violist
Sigismund Bacstrom (c. 1750-1805), German doctor, surgeon and scholar of alchemy
Sigismund Payne Best (1885–1978), British secret agent during the First and Second World Wars
Sigismund von Braun (1911–1998), German diplomat and Secretary of State
Sigismund Danielewicz (1847–1927), California trade union organizer and anarchist
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian founder of psychoanalysis born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Sigismund Gelenius (1497–1554), Greek scholar and humanist
Sigismund Goldwater (1873–1942), physician, hospital administrator, and New York City Commissioner of Health
Sigismund von Götzen (1576–1650), German diplomat and politician
Sigismund Ernst Hohenwart (1745–1825), Bishop of Linz
Sigismund Koelle (1820–1902), German missionary and pioneer scholar of African languages
Sigismund Ernst Richard Krone (1861–1917), German naturalist, zoologist, spelunker, archaeologist and researcher
Sigismund Mendl (1866–1945), British politician
Sigismund von Neukomm (1778–1858), Austrian composer and pianist
Sigismund Felix Freiherr von Ow-Felldorf (1855–1936), Bishop of Passau
Sigismund von Reitzenstein (1766–1847), first minister of state of the Grand Duchy of Baden
Sigismund von Schlichting (1829–1909), Prussian general and military theorist
Sigismund von Schrattenbach (1698–1771), Archbishop of Salzburg
Sigismund Streit (1687–1775), German merchant and art patron in Venice
Sigismund Zaremba (1861–1915), Polish composer

Fictional characters

Sigismund, a Space Marine character from the Warhammer 40,000 novel series, The Horus Heresy
Sigismund Arbuthnot, the "mad maths master" in the Molesworth books
Sigismund Dijkstra, "the witcher" in the Andrzej Sapkowski books

References

^ "Žygìmantas". Vardai VLKK (in Lithuanian).

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