Wolfgang

Wolfgang

Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany and Austria. Its earliest known bearer was a tenth century saint. The name is a combination of the Old High German word wulf, meaning "wolf" and gang, meaning "path, journey". Grimm (Teutonic Mythology p. 1093) interpreted the name as that of a hero in front of whom walks the "wolf of victory". A Latin gloss by Arnoldus Emmeramensis interprets the name as Lupambulus.

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Famous quotes containing the word wolfgang:

    Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source; for that reason one must often not do something to the detriment of error since one would do also something detrimental to truth.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    One doesn’t always lose when one has to do without.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)