Sigismund

Sigismund is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic *sigiz "victory" + *mundō "protection", recorded from the 5th century (Sigismund of Burgundy, c. 475–524) in the Kingdom of Burgundy. An older variant, Segimundus, was Latinized by Tacitus.^[1] In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Austrian, German, Hungarian, and Polish-Lithuanian royal families.

The name is often confused with its cognates Sigmund and Siegmund. While Sigismund was derived from the East Germanic languages, particularly Burgundian or Gothic,^[2] the forms Siegmund and Sigmund trace their origins to the High German languages^[3]. In Slavic languages, the variants Zygmunt/Zikmund/Žigmund was adopted, notably in Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, and Polish. Other language variants of the name include Zsigmond in Hungarian, and also appeared in various forms across the Romance languages.

Translations

• Belarusian: Жыгімонт, romanized: Žyhimont
• French: Sigismond
• Italian: Sigismondo, Gismondo
• Latin: Sigismundus
• Latvian: Sigismunds
• Lithuanian: Sigismundas, Žygimantas
• Portuguese: Sigismundo
• Russian: Сигизмунд, romanized: Sigizmund
• Spanish: Segismundo
• Ukrainian: Сигізмунд, romanized: Sigizmund

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), known as Sigismund of Luxembourg, 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

See also

• Sigismund Bell, a bell in Wawel Cathedral in Kraków

See also

• Sigmund (given name) for people named Sigmund or Siegmund
• Segismundo, main character of Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño