Reinhold

Reinhold
Family name
Pronunciation	rine-holt
Meaning	"wise ruler"
Region of origin	Scandinavia, Germany

Reinhold is a German, Scandinavian surname and male given name.^[1] This Germanic name is composed of two elements: the first is from ragin, meaning "counsel", "power" and wald meaning "ruler". The second element having been reinterpreted as hold meaning "dear", "beloved" in the 16th century.^[2]

This name was brought to the British Isles by Viking conquerors, in the form of the Old Norse Rögnvaldr. In the 11th century, the Normans further established this name as Reinald and Reynaud.^[3] There are other spelling variations of this surname, but all have the same etymological Germanic origin.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Erasmus Reinhold, 16th-century German astronomer; the lunar crater Reinhold is named after him
• Hugo Reinhold (1854–1935), Austrian composer and pianist
• Judge Reinhold (born 1957), American actor
• Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823), 18th/19th-century Austrian philosopher
• Meyer Reinhold (1909–2002), American classical scholar
• Johann Heinrich Carl Reinhold (1788–1825), German painter and engraver

People with the given name include:

• Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), Russian and Soviet composer
• Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882), Estonian writer
• Reinhold Messner (born 1944), Italian mountaineer
• Reinhold Mitterlehner (born 1955), Austrian politician
• Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971), American theologian, public intellectual, and commentator
• Reinhold Remmert (1930–2016), German mathematician
• Reinhold Saulmann (1895–1936), Estonian Olympic sprinter
• Reinhold Thiessenhusen (1864–1930), American politician
• Reinhold Tiling (1893–1933), German engineer, pilot and rocket pioneer
• Reinhold Würth (born 1935), German businessman
• Reinhold Weege (1949–2012), American television writer, producer and director
• Reinhold Hoffmann, a character in Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz

See also

• Reynold
• Rognvald
• Reginald (given name)

References

1. Kruken, Kristoffer; Stemshaug, Ola (1995), Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, p. 207, ISBN 82-521-4483-7 Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
2. Discover the meaning and history behind your last name, Ancestry.com, retrieved 25 November 2013 which cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 for the surname "Reinhold".
3. Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006), A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.), London: Routledge, p. 2626, ISBN 0-203-99355-1 Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)