Berthold

Berthold or Berchtold is a Germanic given name and surname. It is derived from two elements, berht meaning "bright" and wald meaning "(to) rule". It may refer to:

• Bertholdt Hoover, a fictional character in the anime/manga series Attack on Titan

People with the given name Berthold

• Berthold, Duke of Bavaria, (900–947), German duke
• Berthold of Zwiefalten, (c.1089-1169), German abbot and historian
• Berthold, Margrave of Baden (1906-1963), German aristocrat
• Berthold of Garsten (died 1142), Austrian prelate
• Berthold of Parma (died 1111), Italian Benedictine lay brother and saint
• Berthold (patriarch of Aquileia) (1180–1251), Hungarian archbishop and patriarch
• Berthold of Ratisbon (1210–1272), German monk
• Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish poet and author
• Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German dramatist
• Berthold Englisch (1851-1897), Austrian-Jewish chess master
• Berthold Laufer (1874-1934), German anthropologist and historical geographer with an expertise in East Asian languages
• Berthold Lubetkin (1901—1990), Russian architect
• Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905—1944), German aristocrat and lawyer
• Berthold Schwarz, semi-legendary inventor of gunpowder
• Berthold Viertel (1953-1953), Austrian screenwriter and film director
• Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen (1125–1186)

People with the surname Berthold

• Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803-1861), German physiologist and zoologist
• Avgust Berthold (1880–1919), Slovene photographer
• David Berthold, Australian theatre director
• Joseph Berchtold, early senior Nazi Party member and a co-founder of both the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS)
• Rudolph Berthold (1891–1920), German WWI flying ace
• Thomas Berthold (born 1964), soccer coach
• Richard Berthold (born 1946), American professor of history (retired)

Companies

• Berthold Type Foundry, former German type foundry

Places

• Berthold, North Dakota, United States

See also

• Berthod, a surname