This time in **First Names First it is all about Abraham! **An archaic name still in use, and very popular in the 17th century. Often shortened as Abe. So take your pick, and find some inspiring stories behind the names. Give this a couple of minutes – for lives lived have all something worthwhile to tell us. Let them!
Abraham Ortelius* Flemish cartographer/cosmographer/creator of the first modern atlas – Antwerp, Habsburg Netherlands (1527)
Abraham Bloemaert* Dutch painter/printmaker/engraver – Gorinchem, Habsburg Netherlands (1566)
Abraham van der Haagen* (B) Dutch Golden Era painter/engraver – Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1587)
Abraham van Diepenbeeck (B) painter – ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Dutch Republic (1596)
Abraham Ecchellensis* (b Ibrahim al-Haqilani) Catholic philosopher/ linguist/translator – Haqil, Lebanon (1605)
Abraham Diepraam* painter – Rotterdam, Spanish Netherlands (1622)
Abraham Teniers (B) Flemish painter/engraver – Antwerp (1629)
Abraham Brueghel (B) Flemish painter – Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands (1631)
Abraham Hill* merchant – London, England (1633)
Abraham Mignon* Dutch still life painter/active in Utrecht – Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (1640)
Abraham van Calraet* painter/ engraver – Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1642)
Abraham Storck* painter – Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1644)
Abraham Alewijn* playwright/poet – Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1664)
Abraham de Moivre* mathematician – Vitry-le-François, Kingdom of France (1667)
Abraham Darby the elder* malt mill maker/inventor – Dudley, Worcestershire, England (1678)
Abraham Vater* anatomist/mathematician – Wittemberg, Holy Roman Empire (1684)
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner * mathematician/epigrammatist/ the crater Kästner on the Moon is named after him – Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (1719)
Abraham Clark* signer of Declaration of Independence – Elizabethtown, New Jersey, British America (1725)
Abraham Häggman* coppersmith/ industrialist active in Tampere – Kruunupyy, Sweden-Finland (1733)
Abraham Lincoln* military captain/grandfather of President Lincoln – Berks County, Pennsylvania, British America (1744)
Abraham Wasastjerna* (b Falander) merchant/shipbuilder/ knighted due to loyalty to Sweden during Russian takeover – Kokkola, Sweden-Finland (1746)
Abraham-Louis Breguet* horologist/master watchmaker – Neuchatel, Prussia (1747)
Abraham Gottlob Werner* geologist/”the father of German geology” – Wehrau, Prussian Silesia (1749)
Abraham Nordenstedt* (b Qvarnstedt) surveyor – Tammisaari, Sweden-Finland (1764)
Abraham Lincoln* politician/ philosopher/16usp – Hardin County, KY USA (1809)
Abraham Geiger* rabbi/scholar – Frankfurt, GD of Frankfurt (1810)
Abraham Abraham* businessman/ department store magnate/philanthropist– New York City, NY USA (1843)
Abraham Isaac Kook* Orthodox rabbi/one of the fathers of religious Zionism – Griva, Russian Empire (1865)
**Abraham Bankie**r* Polish businessman/Holocaust survivor/assisted Oskar Schindler in his rescue activities – Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (1895)
Abraham Zapruder* Ukrainian-American clothing manufacturer/ witness of JFK murder – Kovel, Russian Empire (1905)
Avraham Even-Shoshan* Hebrew linguist/lexicographer/compiler of the Even-Shoshan dictionary – Minsk, Belarus, Russian Empire (1906)
Abraham Maslow* psychologist/best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - Brooklyn, NY USA (1908)
Abraham Benrubi* actor – Indianapolis, IN USA (1969) pic
Abraham Mateo* singer/ actor/record producer – San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain (1998)
Updated 10.5.2022