Hi ! does anyone knows how Babylonian names got to Germany as a Surname? i mean thru history..?

Question

checking out the surname (vorname) Balthazar it says have Babylonian origins, but how is that you find it mostly in Austria and Germany,..? Thank you....

Answer 1

Tebs is right. The name comes from the Bible. Germans and Austrians have long been very religious people and routinely took their names from the Bible. It isn't that somene brought the name from the Middle East into Germany. It's that someone from Germany picked a name from the Bible and the name has roots in the Middle East.

Answer 2

I would suggest that you check with the National Geographics Genotype Program (just google that; they have so many sites). Their Genotype Program traces human migration patters through DNA; they provide maps, etc.

One of the questionable websites where I traced my own ancestry goes back to ancient Hebrew and Babylonian times, through ancient Troy in Turkey.  While I think it is good for a laugh, my DNA showed ancestors from all those places!

I might also suggest a good history book; one I especially enjoy is "Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization" by Ian Wilson.  Mr. Wilson uses maps, photos of artifacts, sketches, etc., to show the spread of civilization and points out that those early civilizations PREDATED the Babylonian/Mesopotamian/Egyptian civilizations.

Answer 3

Have you heard of the Bible ?

A great many names, throughout the world are taken from the Bible, or other religious sources, since ancient times, and adapted to the languages of numerous countries.

Balthazar  

First name origin & meaning:

German, Spanish: Protect the king; One of the three wise men

First name variations: Baltazar, Baltsaros, Baldassare, Baldasare, Balthazzar, Balshazar, Belshazzar, Baltasar

Last name origin & meaning:

Predominantly French variant of Baltazar.

Baltazar  

First name origin & meaning:

German, Spanish: Protect the king; One of the three wise men

First name variations: Baltsaros, Baldassare, Baldasare, Balthazar, Balthazzar, Balshazar, Belshazzar, Baltasar

Last name origin & meaning:

Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian (Baltazár), etc. It is derived from the Biblical personal names Balthazar and Belshazzar, which were originally distinct but by medieval times had come to be regarded as variants of a single name. The first is from Aramaic Balshatzar, Babylonian Baal tas-assar ‘may Baal preserve his life’, the second from Babylonian Baal shar-uzzur ‘may Baal protect the king’. The latter was borne by the Chaldean king for whom Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall (Daniel 5);  

>the main reason for the popularity of the name in medieval Italy and Germany was that, according to legend, it was the name of one of the three Magi from the East who attended Christ’s birth. His supposed relics were venerated at first in Milan, but after 1164 in Cologne, where they had been taken by Rainald of Dassel.<

Answer 4

For many centuries, there was the Austria-Hungarian Empire, so I guess that is the link to the East...Good question!