Gottschalk
Gottschalk or Godescalc (Old High German) is a male German name that can be translated literally as "servant of God". Latin forms include Godeschalcus and Godescalcus.
Given name
- Godescalc of Benevento, 8th-century Lombard duke
- Godescalc (fl. 781–783), Carolingian scribe; author of the Godescalc Evangelistary
- Godescalc of Le Puy, 10th-century bishop, first documented pilgrim of the Via Podiensis
- Gottschalk of Orbais, a 9th-century theologian, poet, and unwilling monk, best known as a hero of the Jansenists and for his conflict with Hincmar
- Gottschalk (Slavic prince), 11th-century Slavic Prince of the Wends (Saint Gottschalk)
- a 12th-century Holstein peasant, protagonist of the Visio Godeschalci
Surname
- Alfred Gottschalk (biochemist) (1894–1973), German biochemist
- Alfred Gottschalk (rabbi) (1930–2009), German-born American rabbi
- Ben Gottschalk (born 1992), American NFL football player
- Carl W. Gottschalk (1922–1997), American professor and kidney researcher
- Heyno Gottschalk, († 1541), Lutheran monk, the last abbot in Oldenstadt
- Jacob C. Gottschalk (c. 1670–c. 1763), American Mennonite bishop
- John Gottschalk (born 1943), American newspaper publisher
- Joseph Gottschalk (1950–2003), American cycling exhibitionist
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869), American composer and pianist
- Louis F. Gottschalk (1864–1934,) American composer
- Louis A. Gottschalk (1916–2008), American psychiatrist
- Robert Gottschalk (1918–1982), American camera technician and founder of Panavision
- Timo Gottschalk (born 1974), German rally navigator
- Thomas Gottschalk (born 1950), German entertainer and actor
- Walter Gottschalk (1918–2004), American mathematician
Other uses
- Gottschalks, a former retail chain in the United States
- Gottschalk v. Benson, a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court patent case
gollark: What is an "actual word"?
gollark: That's very hypocritical of you.
gollark: Sometimes a human might *appear* to devise a joke which is funny, but there's no true joke-creating intelligence behind it, just automata going through the motions and producing something which seems on the surface to be funny.
gollark: You need a language model with at least 500 billion parameters.
gollark: Well, humans just can't joke at the level required nowadays.
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