Berthold or Berchtold is a Germanic given name and surname. It is derived from two elements, ''berht'' meaning "bright" and ''wald'' meaning "(to) rule". It may refer to:
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People with the given name Berthold
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Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
Berthold (c. 900 – 23 November 947), of the Luitpolding dynasty, was the younger son of Margrave Luitpold of Bavaria and Cunigunda, sister of Duke Erchanger of Swabia. He followed his nephew Eberhard as Duke of Bavaria in 938.
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, (c. 900 – 947), German duke
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Berthold, Margrave of Baden
Berthold, Margrave of Baden (''Berthold Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst August Heinrich Karl''; 24 February 1906 – 27 October 1963), was the head of the House of Baden, which had reigned over the Grand Duchy of Baden until 1918, from 1929 until his deat ...
(1906 - 1963), German aristocrat
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Berthold of Garsten (died 1142), Austrian prelate
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Berthold of Parma (died 1111), Italian Benedictine lay brother and saint
*Berthold (patriarch of Aquileia) (c. 1180 – 1251), Hungarian archbishop and patriarch
*Berthold of Ratisbon (c. 1210–1272), German monk
*Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
*Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German dramatist
*Berthold Englisch (1851-1897), Austrian-Jewish chess master
*Berthold Laufer (1874-1934), German anthropologist and historical geographer with an expertise in East Asian languages
*Berthold Lubetkin (1901—1990), Russian architect
*Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905—1944), German aristocrat and lawyer
*Berthold Schwarz, semi-legendary inventor of gunpowder
*Berthold Viertel (1953-1953), Austrian screenwriter and film director
*Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen
People with the surname Berthold
*Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803-1861), German physiologist and zoologist
*Avgust Berthold (1880–1919), Slovene photographer
*David Berthold, Australian theatre director
*Joseph Berchtold, early senior Nazi Party member and a co-founder of both the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS)
*Rudolph Berthold (1891–1920), German WWI flying ace
*Thomas Berthold (born 1964), soccer coach
*Richard Berthold (born 1946), American professor of history (retired)
Companies
*Berthold Type Foundry, former German type foundry
Places
* Berthold, North Dakota, United States
See also
* Berthod, a surname
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