Joachim is a masculine
given name
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, derived from the Hebrew ''Yehoyaqim'' (), meaning "raised by
Yahweh
Yahweh was an Ancient Semitic religion, ancient Semitic deity of Weather god, weather and List of war deities, war in the History of the ancient Levant, ancient Levant, the national god of the kingdoms of Kingdom of Judah, Judah and Kingdom ...
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Jehoiakim
Jehoiakim, also sometimes spelled Jehoikim was the eighteenth and antepenultimate King of Judah from 609 to 598 BC. He was the second son of King Josiah () and Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. His birth name was Eliakim.
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(c. 635–597 BC), king of Judah, from whom all later versions of the name are directly or indirectly derived
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Jehoiachin
Jeconiah ( meaning "Yahweh has established"; ; ), also known as Coniah and as Jehoiachin ( ''Yəhoyāḵin'' ; ), was the nineteenth and penultimate king of Judah who was dethroned by the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BC ...
, king of Judah and son of Jehoiakim
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Joachim
Joachim was, according to Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary (mother of Jesus), and the maternal grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part of ...
, a Saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. He was the father of
Mary, the mother of Jesus
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Saint Joseph, Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under titles of Mary, mother of Jesus, various titles such as Perpetual virginity ...
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Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135–1202), Italian monk, founder of the heretical "Three Ages" theory
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Joachim Gutkeled (c.1240–1277), Hungarian baron
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Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg
Joachim I Nestor (21 February 1484 – 11 July 1535) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1499–1535), the fifth member of the House of Hohenzollern. His nickname was taken from King Nestor of Greek mythology.
Biography
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(1484–1535), German member of the
Hohenzollern
The House of Hohenzollern (, ; , ; ) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. ...
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Patriarch Joachim I of Constantinople, reigned 1498–1502,1504
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Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505–1571)
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Joachim du Bellay
Joachim du Bellay (; – 1 January 1560) was a French poet, critic, and a founder of '' La Pléiade''. He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: '' Défense et illustration de la langue française'', which aimed at promoting French as a ...
(1522–1560), French poet
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Patriarch Joachim of Moscow (1620–1690), the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
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Joachim Perinet (1763–1816), Austrian dramatist
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Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat ( , also ; ; ; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French Army officer and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the military titles of Marshal of the ...
(1767–1815),
Marshal of the Empire
Marshal of the Empire () was a civil dignity during the First French Empire. It was established by on 18 May 1804 and to a large extent reinstated the formerly abolished title of Marshal of France. According to the ''Sénatus-consulte'', a Mar ...
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Grand Duke of Berg and
King of Naples
The following is a list of rulers of the Kingdom of Naples, from its first Sicilian Vespers, separation from the Kingdom of Sicily to its merger with the same into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Kingdom of Naples (1282–1501)
House of Anjou
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Otto Joachim Moltke (1770–1853), Danish politician and Minister of State
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Joachim Patrikios (1786–1868), born in Ithaca, Greece, a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox tradition
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Joseph Joachim Raff (1822–1882), German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist
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Patriarch Joachim II of Constantinople, reigned 1860–1863, 1873–1878
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Joachim, 4th Prince Murat (1834–1901), major-general in the French Army
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Ecumenical Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople (1834–1912)
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Joachim (Levitsky) (1853–c.1921), Russian Orthodox bishop and religious writer
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Joachim, 5th Prince Murat (1856–1932), member of the Bonaparte-Murat family
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Joachim Ringelnatz
Joachim Ringelnatz is the pen name of the German author and painter Hans Bötticher
(7 August 1883 in Wurzen, Saxony – 17 November 1934 in Berlin). From 1894 to 1900 he lived with his family in the Gottschedstrasse 40 in Leipzig. Profile
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(1883–1934), pen name of German author and painter Hans Bötticher
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Joachim Albrecht Eggeling (1884–1945), German Nazi SS officer
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Joachim, 6th Prince Murat (1885–1938), member of the Bonaparte-Murat family
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Prince Joachim of Prussia (1890–1920), German royal
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Joachim Stutschewsky (1891–1982), Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician and diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. ...
(1893–1946), German Nazi foreign minister and war criminal
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Joachim Ziegler (1905–1945), German Nazi SS commander
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Joachim Mrugowsky (1905–1948), German Nazi doctor executed for war crimes
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Joachim Gruppelaar (1911–1971), Dutch Olympic equestrian
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Joachim Rumohr (1911–1971), German Nazi SS commander
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Joachim Hamann (1913–1945), Baltic-German Holocaust perpetrator
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Joachim Peiper
Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) colonel, convicted war criminal and car salesman. During the Second World War in Europe, Peiper served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, leader of the ...
(1915–1976), German war criminal and SS leader
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Joachim Rønneberg (1919–2018), member of the Gunnerside team of the
sabotage of the heavy water plant at
Vemork
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Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922–2000), German jazz journalist
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Joachim Fest (1926–2006), German historian, writer on Nazi Germany including an important biography of Adolf Hitler
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Joachim Fuchsberger (1927–2014), German actor and television host
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Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau (1929–1998), German count
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Joachim Wendler (1939–1975), German aquanaut
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Joachim Gauck
Joachim Wilhelm Gauck (; born 24 January 1940) is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
During the P ...
(born 1940), President of Germany 2012–2017
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Joachim, 8th Prince Murat (born 1944), current head of the Murat family
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Joachim Sauer (born 1949), German scientist
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Joachim Witt
Joachim Witt (born 22 February 1949) is a German rock musician and actor who has been active since 1977. During his prolific 50-year career, Witt has released 20 studio albums and a further 8 compilation and live albums as a solo artist. Early i ...
(born 1949), German musician and actor
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Joachim Kroll (1933–1991), German serial killer, rapist, and cannibal
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Hans-Joachim Stuck (born 1951), German motor racing driver
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Joachim Löw (born 1960), German football coach and former manager of the Germany national team
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Joachim Nagel (born 1966), German economist and current president of the
Bundesbank
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Joachim Garraud
Joachim André Garraud (; born 27 September 1968) is a French DJ, music producer and remixer from Nantes. He is a producer of artists such as Paul Johnson (DJ), Paul Johnson, Deep Dish (band), Deep Dish, David Bowie, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the ...
, (born 1968), French DJ
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Prince Joachim of Denmark
Prince Joachim of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, (; Joachim Holger Waldemar Christian; born 7 June 1969) is a member of the Danish royal family. The younger son of Queen Margrethe II, he is fifth in the line of succession to the Danish throne, ...
(born 1969)
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Joachim Stamp (born 1970), German politician
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Joachim Björklund
Joachim Björklund (; born 15 March 1971) is a Swedish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a centre back. He is currently assistant coach for Allsvenskan club IFK Göteborg.
Beginning his playing career with Öste ...
(born 1971), Swedish football player
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Joachim, Prince of Pontecorvo (born 1973), member of the Bonaparte-Murat family
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Joachim Johansson
Joachim Johansson (born 1 July 1982) is a former professional male tennis player from Sweden. He reached the semifinals of the 2004 US Open, won 3 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 9 in February 2005.
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(born 1982), Swedish tennis player
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Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (born 1991)
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Joachim of Korsun (died 1030), first bishop of
Novgorod the Great
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Joachim Dahissiho, Beninese politician
Fictional characters
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Joachim (''Star Trek''), a villain from the ''Star Trek'' episode "Space Seed" and the movie ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''
*Joachim, the Norwegian protagonist of
Jostein Gaarder's novel ''
The Christmas Mystery''
*Joachim Ziemssen, cousin of the protagonist Hans Castorp in
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...
's 1924 novel ''
The Magic Mountain
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*Elder Joachim, a high-ranking member of the Panarii religion and mentor to the character Virgil in the 2001 video game ''
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura''
*Joachim de Wett, a Nilfgaardian commander in ''
The Witcher'' series
*Joachim Armster, the vampiric boss of the Dark Palace of Waterfalls in the ''
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence'' video game
Other language forms
* Albanian: Gjokë ''(def.)'', Gjoka ''(indef.)''
* Armenian: Hovakim (Հովակիմ)
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Basque
Basque may refer to:
* Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France
* Basque language, their language
Places
* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
* Basque Country (autonomous co ...
: Jokin, Iokin
* Catalan:
Joaquim, Quim, Ximo (in Valencian)
* Czech: Jáchym
* Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish:
Joakim
* Dutch: Jochem, Jogchum, Jochen, Joachim
* French: Joachim
* Galician: Xaquín
* German: Joachim, Jochen, Achim
* Greek: Iōākeím ()
* Hungarian: Joakim
* Icelandic: Jóakim
* Irish: Ioaichím
* Indonesian: Yoakim
* Italian:
Gioacchino
* Maltese: Ġwakkin
* Murcian: Iacin, Juaqui, Quino
* Polish: Joachim
* Portuguese:
Joaquim (short forms: Jaquim, Quim, Quincas)
* Romanian: Ioachim
* Russian: Ioakim (), Akim ()
* Serbian: Joakim (), Jakim (), Akim (),
Aćim (), Jaćim (),
and diminutives.
* Spanish:
Joaquín
* Swedish: Joakim, Joacim, Joachim
* Ukrainian: Ioakim (
Йоаким), Iakim (
Яким)
See also
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Joachim (surname)
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Patriarch Joachim (disambiguation)
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Prince Joachim (disambiguation)
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Hakim (name)
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Joakim
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Joaquim
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Joaquín
References
{{given name, Joachim
Masculine given names
German masculine given names