Fridolin is a German masculine given name, derived from
Old High German
Old High German (OHG; ) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous ...
. Notable people with this name include:
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Fridolin of Säckingen
Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, also known as Fridold or Fredelinus, is a legendary Irish missionary, apostle of the Alamanni and founder of Säckingen Abbey on the Upper Rhine. He is also the patron saint of the Swiss canton of Glarus.
His oldes ...
, Irish missionary, apostle of the Alamanni and founder of Säckingen Abbey
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Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (born 1960), Congolese prelate of the Catholic Church
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Fridolin Anderwert (1828–1880), Swiss politician
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Fridolin Dietsche (1861–1908) was a German sculptor
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Fridolin Friedmann Fridolin Moritz Max Friedmann (June 2, 1897 – October 15, 1976) was a progressive German-Jewish educator. He taught at the Odenwald School and was later headmaster at the Landschulheim Caputh, both in Germany. He accompanied several Kindertranspo ...
(1897–1976), German-Jewish educator
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Fridolin Glass (1910–1943), Austrian Nazi activist and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer
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Fridolin Hamma (1881–1969), German
luthier
A luthier ( ; ) is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.
Etymology
The word ' is originally French and comes from ''luth'', the French word for "lute". The term was originally used for makers of lutes, but it came to be ...
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Fridolin Heer (1834–1910), Swiss architect
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Fridolin Marinus Knobel (1857–1933), Dutch diplomat and politician
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Fridolin Kurmann, Swiss field hockey player
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Fridolin Leiber (1853–1912), German painter
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Fridolin Schley (born 1976), German writer
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Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, German Nazi general
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Fridolin Sicher (1490–1546), Swiss composer and organist
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Fridolin Sulser (1926–2016), Swiss-American pharmacologist
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Fridolin Wagner (born 1997), German footballer
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Fridolin Wenger, Swiss footballer
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Fridolin Yoku (born 1997), Indonesian footballer
*Fridolin Žolna, pen name of Slovene lawyer and writer
Fran Milčinski (1867–1932)
Other uses
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Volkswagen Type 147 Kleinlieferwagen
The Volkswagen Type 147 (informally Fridolin) was a panel van produced by the German automaker Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles from 1964 until 1974. The van was mainly built for the purposes of the state-owned '' Deutsche Bundespost''. , informally nicknamed the Fridolin
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Fridolin Arnault House, located in Wood-Ridge, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
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Gustav Fridolin (born 1983), Swedish writer, teacher and politician
{{Given name, Fridolin
German masculine given names
Masculine given names