Beda (name)
Beda is a given name and surname of multiple origin. As a given name, it originates as an Anglo-Saxon short name, West Saxon Bīeda, Northumbrian Bǣda, Anglian Bēda (the purported name of one of the Saxon founders of Portsmouth in AD 501 according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)[1] cognate with German Bodo. Beda Venerabilis was a Benedictine, in whose honour the name Beda was popularly chosen as a monastic name by Benedictines, and ultimately entered common usage as a given name on the continent.
Béda is an unrelated Hungarian feminine given name.
Beda is also an unrelated Russian surname (from беда "trouble, misery").
Given name
- Beda (Beda Venerabilis, the Venerable Bede), Anglo-Saxon monk and historian
- Beda Angehrn (born Johann Konrad, 1725-1796), prince-abbot of Saint Gall.
- Beda Aschenbrenner (born Franz Josef, 1756-1817) professor for church law at Ingolstadt and last abbot of Oberalteich abbey.
- Beda Weber (1798–1859), German writer
- Beda Dudík (1815–1890), Benedictine Moravian historian
- Beda Adlhoch (born Franz Xaver, 1854-1910) Benedictine monk and professor of philosophy in Rome.
Surname
- Leonid Beda (1923–1995), Soviet Army officer
- Pedro Beda (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
- Slavko Beda (1919–1975), Croatian footballer
References
- ↑ J. Insley, "Portesmutha" in: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde vol. 23, Walter de Gruyter (2003), 291.
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