Balthazar

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Balthazar (also spelled Balthasar or Balthassar), from Phoenician, meaning "God protects the King" (Baal is god in Phoenician) is the name commonly attributed to one of the Three Wise Men, at least in the west. Though no names are given in the Gospel of Matthew, this was one of the names the Western church settled on in the 8th century, based on the original meaning, though other names were used by Eastern churches (for more information see Biblical Magi). It is an alternate form of the Babylonian king Belshazzar, mentioned in the Book of Daniel.

Balthazar may refer to:

• Balthazar (novel), a 1958 novel by Lawrence Durrell
• Balthazar, a 1909 book by Anatole France
• Au hasard Balthazar, a 1966 film by Robert Bresson
• Professor Balthazar, a Croatian cartoon series for children about an old inventor
• The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, a 1968 novel by J.P. Donleavy
• Balthasar Behem Codex, a 1505 lawbook from Kraków
• Balthazar, a 12 litre champagne or wine bottle

People:

• Willard Balthazar, artist who created mind-painting
• Baltazar Franco (Product Design Eng.) (1951 – 20XX) Mexican Designer
• Baltazar (footballer) (1926 – 1997) Brazilian footballer
• Francisco Balthazar (1788 – 1862) birth name of Francisco Balagtas, prominent Filipino poet
• Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon (1781 – 1846) 19th century French politician
• Wilhelm Balthasar (1914 – 1941) WWII German Luftwaffe ace
• Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905 – 1988) Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and priest
• Balthazar Alvarez (1533 – 1580) Spanish Catholic mystic
• Balthasar Bekker (1634 – 1698) Dutch philosopher
• Baldassare Castiglione (1478 – 1529) Italian Renaissance author
• Baltasar Corrada del Río, Puerto Rican politician
• Balthasar Eggenberger (?? - 1493) Austrian entrepreneur and financier in the Holy Roman Empire
• Baltasar Garzón, Spanish judge
• Balthasar Gérard, assassin of William I of Orange
• Balthazar Getty, American actor and great grandson of J. Paul Getty
• Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 – 1658) Spanish Baroque prose writer
• Balthasar Hubmaier, German Anabaptist leader
• Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (1908 – 2001) birth name of twentieth century artist Balthus
• Baltasar Lopes da Silva, Cape Verdean writer
• Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• Balthasar Ferdinand Moll (1717 – 1785) Baroque sculptor
• Balthasar de Monconys (1611 – 1665) French magistrate
• Balthasar Neumann (1687 – 1753) German engineer and architect
• Balthasar Oomkens von Esens, 16th century Frisian rebel (two of whose brothers were named Caspar and Melchior)
• Balthasar Russow, Estonian chronicler
• Baltazar Téllez (1596-1675), Jesuit historian of Ethiopia
• Balthazar Johannes Vorster, apartheid-era South African Prime Minister and President

In fiction:

• Romeo's manservant in the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet.
• Portia's masculine alter-ego in the William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice
• A follower of Don Pedro, a singer, from the William Shakespeare play Much Ado about Nothing
• A merchant in the William Shakespeare play The Comedy of Errors
• The name of Jolyon Forsyte's dog in The Forsyte Saga
• The name given to Runo Rimac, a native Amerindian prince enslaved by Gonzalo Pizarro in the 1972 film Aguirre: The Wrath of God
• A supporting character in Ben-Hur
• A demon in the film Constantine played by Gavin Rossdale
• A supporting character in the film The Scorpion King played by actor Michael Clarke Duncan
• A demon in the episode Bad Girls of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• A character in The Death Gate Cycle books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
• Balthazar, godfather of Gargamel in The Smurfs by Peyo
• A wolf-like Faerie hunter on Neopets
• The god of war and fire in the online game Guild Wars
• A fictional monk from Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
• Part of the MAGI Super Computer System in the Japanese animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion
• A character in Cluadia Gray's novels Evernight and Stargazer
• One of the three "Gurus of Time" in the RPG "Chrono Trigger"
• A long standing character played by Julian McMahon in the show "Charmed". Belthazar is the name of the half-demon love interest of Phoebe.
• The name of the main character from the book "The Neverending Story" (Bastian Balthazar Bux).
• The name of the primary antagonist in the X-box game "Azurik: Rise of Perathia".

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