Matthias

Matthias is a name derived from the Greek Ματθιας, in origin similar to Matthew.

People with the given name Matthias

Notable people named Matthias include the following:

In nobility:

• Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary
• Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor-elect of the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg dynasty)

In religion:

• Saint Matthias, Apostle chosen by the remaining eleven apostles to replace Judas Iscariot
• Matthias of Trakai, Lithuanian clergyman, bishop of Samogitia and of Vilnius
• Matthias Flacius, Lutheran reformer
• Matthias the Prophet, see Robert Matthews (religious impostor) Claimed to be the reincarnation of the original Matthias during the Second Great Awakening

In the arts:

• Matthias Grünewald, highly regarded painter from the German Renaissance
• Matthias Lechner, German film art director

In music:

• Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter
• Matthias Weckmann, North German musician and composer of the Baroque period

Other:

• Matthias Ephlias, paternal ancestor of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus
• Matthias Curtus, paternal great-grandfather of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus
• Matthias, father of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus
• Matthias, brother of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus
• F. Matthias Alexander, Australian actor who developed the educational process that is today called the Alexander Technique
• Matthias Felleisen, programming languages researcher
• Matthias Platzeck, German politician
• Matthias Sammer, former German football (soccer) player who is now a head coach
• Matthias, a character in Brian Jacques' Redwall series
• Matthias Jakob Schleiden, a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory
• Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE and LyX
• Matthias Frings, German writer and journalist

Cognates

The following forenames are related to the English forename Matthias:

• Belarusian: Мацей (Maciej)
• Catalan: Mateu
• Croatian: Matija
• Czech: Matyáš
• Danish: Mathias, Matthias
• Dutch: Matthias, Mathijs
• English: Matthias
• Finnish: Matias, Matti
• French: Mathias, Matthias, Matthis
• Gaelic: Maitias
• German, Danish: Mathias, Matthias
• Hungarian: Mátyás
• Icelandic: Matthías
• Italian: Mattia
• Latin: Matthias
• Latvian: Matiass
• Lithuanian: Motiejus
• Spanish: Matías
• Slovak: Matej
• Polish: Maciej
• Portuguese: Matias (current spelling), Mathias (archaic spelling)
• Russian: Матвей (Матфей)
• Serbian: Матија (Matiya)
• Slovenian: Matija
• Swedish: Mattias, Mathias, Mattis, Mats

See also

• Mathias (disambiguation)
• Mattias