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Laurentius

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Region of origin
  
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Meaning
  
"From Laurentum", or "Laurelled"

Related names
  
Llorente\Lorente (Aragonese-Spain), Laurens (Dutch), Lorenzo (Italian, Castilian-Spain), Laurent (French), Laurențiu (Romanian), Lourenço (Portuguese), Laurence, Lawrence (English), Lorentz (Germanic)

Laurentius is a Latin surname that means "From Laurentum" (a city near Rome), or "Laurelled". It can also be used as a first name. Notable people with the name include:

In Early Christianity:

  • Lawrence of Rome, Saint Laurentius of Rome (died 258), Italian deacon and saint, born in Spain
  • In Catholicism:

  • Antipope Laurentius, antipope of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Laurence of Canterbury, archbishop of Canterbury known as Saint Laurentius
  • Lárentíus Kálfsson, bishop of Hólar, Iceland, 1324–1331
  • Laurentius Abstemius, Italian writer, Professor of Belles Lettres at Urbino, and Librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo under Pope Alexander VI
  • Laurentia McLachlan, Benedictian nun, Great Britain, 1866–1953
  • In Byzantium:

  • Joannes Laurentius Lydus, Byzantine writer on antiquarian subjects
  • In Poland:

  • Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Laurentius Grimaldius Gosliscius, (1530–1607), Polish bishop, political thinker and philosopher best known for his book De optimo senatore
  • In Lutheranism:

  • Laurentius Andreae, Swedish clergyman and scholar
  • Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (1565–1646), Swedish theologian, astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala
  • Laurentius Petri (1499–1573), Swedish clergyman and the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden
  • Laurentius Petri Gothus, the second Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden
  • Paul Laurentius (1554–1624), Lutheran divine
  • Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, minister and witch hunter in Torsåker and Ytterlännäs, Sweden
  • In other fields:

  • Henrik Laurentius Helliesen, Norwegian Minister of Finance in several periods between 1863 and 1883
  • Laurentius (weevil), a beetle genus in the tribe Madopterini
  • References

    Laurentius Wikipedia


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