Gustav (name)

Gustav, also spelled Gustaf (English pronunciation: /ˈɡʊstɑːv/), is a male given name of Old Swedish origin, possibly meaning "staff of the Geats", derived from the Old Norse elements Gautr ("Geat") and stafr ("staff"). Another etymology speculates that the name may have an Slavic origin, through Swedish, from "Gostislav", a compound word from Old Slavic "Gost'" ("guest") and "slava" ("glory"). This name has been borne by eight Kings of Sweden, including the 16th-century Gustav Vasa and the current king, Carl XVI Gustaf. It is a common name for Swedish monarchs since the reign of Gustav Vasa.

The name has entered other languages as well. In French it is Gustave; in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, Gustavo. The Latinised form is Gustavus. A side form of the name in Swedish is Gösta. The name in Finnish is Kustaa.

In Danish, Norwegian and German it is written the same as the above mentioned Swedish varieties. In Icelandic and Faroese it is written Gústav or Gústaf.

People

• Gustav I, king whose reign marked the end of the Kalmar Union and Swedish independence
• Gustav II Adolf Gustavus Adolphus Swedish king, praised military leader during the Thirty Year War, sometimes referred to as the "Father of modern warfare" or "The Lion of the North"
• Gustav III, king who highly influenced the arts of Sweden during the Neo-Classical era and who temporarily reinstated absolute monarchy
• Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
• Gustav V
• Gustaf VI Adolf
• Karl X Gustav, King of Sweden
• Carl XVI Gustaf, current king of Sweden
• Gustav A. Fischer, German explorer
• Gustav Fröding, Swedish author and poet
• Gustav Hamel, pioneer aviator
• Gustav Haggren, singer/songwriter in the Swedish band Gustav and the Seasick Sailors
• Gustav A. Hedlund, US-American mathematician
• Gustav A. Hemwall, US-American physician and pioneer in Prolotherapy
• Gustav Henriksen, Norwegian businessman
• Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• Gustav Heynhold (1800–1860), a German botanist
• Gustav Holst, British composer
• Gustav Jäger, German naturalist and teacher of zoology
• Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and black-body radiation
• Gustav Heinse (real name Josef Klein), Bulgarian poet of Austrian origin
• Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter of the Vienna Secession
• Gustav Knittel, German Waffen-SS officer and convicted war criminal
• Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor
• Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor
• Gustav Nezval, Czech actor
• Gustav A. Schneebeli, a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania
• Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor
• Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian president (1927 - 1930)
• Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, scientist for whom the Coriolis effect is named
• Gustaf Dalén, Swedish inventor and Nobel Prize laureate
• Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Madame Bovary)
• Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet
• Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist
• Gustav de Laval, Swedish engineer, inventor and entrepreneur
• Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower
• Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born Canadian Special Operations Executive agent during World War II
• Gustave Whitehead, German-American aviator
• Gustav Spörer, German astronomer
• Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and physicist
• Gustav Schäfer drummer of the German rock band Tokio Hotel
• Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia
• Gustav Bertha, Scottish singer-songwriter
• Gustav Åbergsson, Swedish stage actor
• Gustavus von Tempsky, Anglo-Prussian explorer and adventurer in New Zealand Land Wars
• Gustav Wood, Vocalist in British rock band Young Guns
• Gustav_Zeuner German physicist and engineer

In fiction

• Gustav (Zoids), transportation mecha from the Zoids fictional universe
• Gustav Graves, villain in the James Bond series

See also

• Carl Gustav (disambiguation)
• Gustafson (disambiguation)
• Gösta (disambiguation)

In other languages

• Armenian: Գուստավ (Gustav)
• Catalan: Gustau
• Chinese: 古斯塔夫(Gustav)
• Czech: Gustav
• Danish: Gustav
• Dutch: Gustaaf
• English: Gustav
• Estonian: Gustav
• Finnish: Kustaa
• French: Gustave
• Georgian: გუსტავ (Gustav)
• German: Gustav, Gustaf
• Greek: Γουστάβος (Gustávos)
• Hebrew: גוסטב (Gustav)
• Hungarian: Gusztáv
• Italian: Gustavo
• Latin: Gustavus
• Latvian: Gustavs
• Lithuanian: Gustavas
• Norwegian: Gustav
• Polish: Gustaw
• Portuguese: Gustavo
• Romanian: Gustav
• Russian: Густав (Gustav)
• Serbian: Густав (Gustav)
• Slovak: Gustav
• Slovene: Gustav
• Spanish: Gustavo
• Swedish: Gustav, Gustaf