Nicolaus
title: "Nicolaus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["german-masculine-given-names", "masculine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Nicolaus is a masculine given name. It is a Latin, Greek and German form of Nicholas. Nicolaus may refer to:
In science:
- Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric theory of the Solar System
- Nicolaus Otto (1832 – 1891), a German engineer
In mathematics:
- Nicolaus I Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician
- Nicolaus II Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician
- Nicolaus Rohlfs, an 18th-century German mathematics teacher who wrote astronomical calendars
In literature:
- Nicolaus Becker, a German lawyer and writer, the author of the Rheinlied
- Nicolaus of Damascus, a Greek historical and philosophical writer who lived in the Augustan age
In music:
- Nicolaus Bruhns, a German composer
- Nicolaus Zacharie, an Italian composer of the early Renaissance
In Christianity:
- Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, a German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church
- Nicolaus Taurellus, a German philosopher and theologian
- Nicolaus of Antioch, one of the seven deacons listed in The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 6, Verse 5
In other fields:
- Nicolaus Delius, a German philologist
Other uses
- Nicolaus, California, a small town in the United States
- Nicolaus (leafhopper), a genus of leafhoppers
References
References
- [http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/n/origin-and-meaning-of-nicolaus.htm MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Nicolaus]
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