Wenzel is a male given name (long version
Wenzeslaus
Wenceslaus, Wenceslas, Wenzeslaus and Wenzslaus (and other similar names) are Latinized forms of the Slavic names#In Slovakia and Czech_Republic, Czech name Václav. The other language versions of the name are german: Wenzel, pl, Wacław, Więces ...
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Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
form of the Czech given name
Václav Václav () is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas. These forms are derived from the old Slavic/Czech form of this name: Venceslav.
Nicknames are: Vašek, Vašík, Venca, Venda
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Venceslav,
[ meaning "praised with glory". Variations are Вячеслав (Ukrainian and Russian), ]Vencel
Wenceslaus, Wenceslas, Wenzeslaus and Wenzslaus (and other similar names) are Latinized forms of the Slavic names#In Slovakia and Czech_Republic, Czech name Václav. The other language versions of the name are german: Wenzel, pl, Wacław, Więces ...
(Hungarian), Wacław Wacław is a Polish masculine given name. It is a borrowing of cz, Václav, Latinized as Wenceslaus.
For etymology and cognates in other languages, see Wenceslaus.
It may refer to:
*Wacław Leszczyński (disambiguation), Wacław Leszczyński
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, Więcław, Wiesław :"Wiesław" is sometimes transliterated as "Wieslaw", in the absence of ''L with stroke.''
Wiesław () is a Polish masculine given name, of Slavonic origin, meaning "great glory" or "all glory". It is the shortened, more common, form of the pers ...
(Polish), Venceslas
Wenceslaus, Wenceslas, Wenzeslaus and Wenzslaus (and other similar names) are Latinized forms of the Czech name Václav. The other language versions of the name are german: Wenzel, pl, Wacław, Więcesław, Wieńczysław, es, Wenceslao, russian ...
/Wenceslas
Wenceslaus, Wenceslas, Wenzeslaus and Wenzslaus (and other similar names) are Latinized forms of the Slavic names#In Slovakia and Czech_Republic, Czech name Václav. The other language versions of the name are german: Wenzel, pl, Wacław, Więces ...
(French), Venceslao (Italian), Venceslau (Portuguese), Wenceslao Wenceslao is a Spanish masculine given name, derived from Wenceslaus, itself a Latinized version of the Slavic names Vyacheslav, Václav, Wacław, Więcesław, Ventsislav etc. It may refer to:
* Wences Casares (born 1974), Argentine entrepreneur
* ...
(Spanish).
Given name
* Wenzel Jamnitzer
Wenzel Jamnitzer (sometimes Jamitzer, or Wenzel ''Gemniczer'') (1507/1508 – 19 December 1585) was a Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching, who worked in Nuremberg. He was the best known German goldsmith of his e ...
(ca. 1507–1585), Austrian-German etcher and goldsmith
* Wenzel, Archduke of Austria (1561–1578), Austrian prince and Grand Prior of the Order of Malta
* Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz Wenzel is a male given name (long version Wenzeslaus) as the German and Old English form of the Czech given name Václav or Venceslav, meaning "praised with glory". Variations are Вячеслав (Ukrainian and Russian), Vencel (Hungarian), Wacła ...
(1711–1794), Austrian statesman
* Wenzel Raimund Birck
Wenzel Raimund Johann Birck (also spelled "Pirck", "Birk", "Birckh", "Pirckh", "Pürk", and "Pürck") (1718–1763) was one of the early proponents of Symphonic music in Vienna, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Georg Matthias Monn, and an ...
(1718–1763), Austrian composer
* Wenzel Parler
Wenzel Parler ( cs, Václav Parléř, 1404) was an architect and sculptor from the Parler family of German-Bohemian master builders and son of Peter Parler. He worked on Gothic churches in the Holy Roman cities of Prague, Nördlingen, and Vienna d ...
(1333–1399), German-Bohemian architect
* Wenzel Pichl Wenzel is a male given name (long version Wenzeslaus) as the German and Old English form of the Czech given name Václav or Venceslav, meaning "praised with glory". Variations are Вячеслав (Ukrainian and Russian), Vencel (Hungarian), Wacła ...
(1741–1805), Czech composer
* Wenzel Thomas Matiegka
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (Czech: ''Václav Tomáš Matějka''; baptized 6 July 1773 – 19 January 1830) was a Czech composer and one of the most celebrated guitarists of the 19th century.
Life
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka was born in the town of Choceň ...
(1773–1830), Bohemian composer
* Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein ; german: Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternic ...
(1773–1859), German-Austrian politician and statesman
* Wolfgang Wenzel von Haffner (1806–1892), Norwegian Minister of the Navy
* Wenzel Storch
Wenzel Storch (born 1961, Braunschweig, West Germany) is a German film director and producer.
His low-budget fantasy films tend to be critical towards the church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian r ...
(born 1961), German film director and producer
* Josef Wenzel, Prince of Liechtenstein
Josef Wenzel I (Josef Wenzel Lorenz; 9 August 1696 – 10 February 1772), often referred to as just Wenzel, was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1712 and 1718, and 1748 and 1772, as well as regent of Liechtenstein between 1732 and 1745. He fir ...
(1696–1772), prince of Liechtenstein
* Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg (Joseph Wenzel Maximilian Maria; born 24 May 1995) is the eldest child of Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, the Regent and Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, and his wife Sophie, Hereditary ...
(born 1995), oldest child of Prince Alois of Liechtenstein and his wife Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria
* Franz Wenzel, Graf von Kaunitz-Rietberg
Franz Wenzel, Graf von Kaunitz-Rietberg (2 July 1742 in Vienna – 19 December 1825 in Vienna) was an Austrian general who saw service in the Seven Years' War and Wars of the French Revolution.
Life
Kaunitz was the third son of the statesman We ...
, (1742-1825), Austrian general, son of Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz
Surname
* Andreas Wenzel
Andreas Wenzel (born 18 March 1958) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein, active from 1976 to 1988. Born in Planken, he was the overall World Cup champion in 1980, the same season in which his older sister Hanni won the wome ...
(born 1958), former Alpine skier from Liechtenstein
* Brian Wenzel
Brian Thomas Wenzel (born 24 May 1929) is an Australian former actor, comedian, director and singer. He has been in the entertainment business for 75 years, including circus, stage, television and film (including made for TV movies and theatrica ...
(born 1929), Australian character actor
* Carl Friedrich Wenzel Carl Friedrich Wenzel (February 26, 1793) was a German chemist and metallurgist who determined the reaction rates of various chemicals, establishing, for example, that the amount of metal that dissolves in an acid is proportional to the concentrat ...
(ca. 1740-1793), German chemist and metallurgist
* David Wenzel
David T. Wenzel (; born November 22, 1950) is an illustrator and children's book artist. He is best known for his graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Hobbit''.
Career
Wenzel's first ambition had been to work for one of the big anim ...
(born 1950), American illustrator and children's book artist
* Eberhard Wenzel
Eberhard R. Wenzel (2 January 1950 – 20 September 2001) was a public health researcher, a co-founder of the WWW Virtual Library: Public Health, and an advocate of the socio-ecological view of health promotion as described in the Ottawa Charter ...
(1950–2001), German-born public health researcher
* Hanni Wenzel
Hannelore (Hanni) Wenzel. vancouver2010.com. 23 January 2010 (born 14 December 1956) is a retired Liechtensteiner alpine ski racer. Weirather is a former Olympic, World Cup, and world champion. She won Liechtenstein's first-ever Olympic medal at ...
(born 1956), German-born alpine skier from Liechtenstein
* Hans-Georg Wenzel
Hans-Georg Wenzel (3 February, 1945 – 11 November, 1999), also known as George Wenzel, was a German geodesist, geophysicist and university lecturer. His most important field of work was physical geodesy, where he worked after his dissertation on ...
(1949–1999), geodesist, geophysicist and university lecturer
* Joan Wenzel (born 1953), Canadian middle-distance runner
* Johann Wenzel
Johann Wenzel (9 March 1902, Nidowo, Nowy Staw – 2 February 1969, Berlin) was a German Communist, highly professional GRU agent and radio operator of the espionage group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr in Belgium and the ...
(1902–1969), GRU spy in WWII Germany, radio specialist
* Joseph W. Wenzel (1940–2021), American argumentation and rhetorical scholar
* Leopold Wenzel
Léopold de Wenzel (23 January 1847 – 21 August 1923), also known as Leopold Wenzel, was an Italian conductor and composer.
Born in Naples, Wenzel spent most of his career working in London, with the exception of some years spent in Paris. Wenz ...
or Léopold de Wenzel (1847–1923), Italian conductor and composer
* Rene Wenzel, American cycling coach
* Sally Wenzel
Sally Ellen Wenzel–Morganroth is an American pulmonologist. She is a professor and Rachel Carson Chair of Environmental Health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Wenzel was formally the co-director of the Harry and ...
, American pulmonologist
See also
* Wenzl (surname) Wenzl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Josef Wenzl (born 1984), German cross country skier
* Richard Wenzl (died 1957), German World War I flying ace
See also
*Wenzel
*Wentzel Wentzel and Wentzell are surnames, and may refer ...
* Wentzel Wentzel and Wentzell are surnames, and may refer to:
Wentzel
* Emil Wentzel (c. 1817–1892), timber merchant and politician in South Australia
* Gregor Wentzel (1898–1978), German physicist
* Stan Wentzel (1917–1991), Major League Baseball ...
* Wenzell Baird Bryant (1927-2008), American filmmaker
* Margaret Wenzell
Margaret “Marge” Wenzell (May 21, 1925 – July 6, 2014) was a utility infielder/outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 134 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.
A membe ...
(born 1925), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
* Wenzel's, British bakery chain
Surnames from given names
References
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[{{cite web , url= http://www.namenforschung.net/id/name/110/1 , title= Wenzel , work= Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands , language= German , first= Andrea , last= Scheller , year= 2020 ]
[{{cite web , url= https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=wenzel , title= Wenzel , work= Dictionary of American Family Names , year= 2013 , publisher= Oxford University Press ]
Slavic-language names
German masculine given names
German-language surnames