Malte
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Malte is a male given name, that is mainly used in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It originated from Helmhold/Helmwald. It described the advisor of the Thing (assembly)
Thing (assembly)
A thing was the governing assembly in Germanic and introduced into some Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers, meeting in a place called a thingstead...

 (helm: helmet, walt: rule, govern)

It may refer to:
  • Malte Burba (born 1957), German musician
  • Malte-Conrad Bruun (1755–1826), Danish-French geographer
  • Malte Ludin
    Malte Ludin
    Malte Ludin is a German filmmaker. He was born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1942.He studied political science at the Free University of Berlin....

     (born 1942), German filmmaker
  • Malte Urban (born 1974), German bicyclist
  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
    The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
    The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge was Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel. It was written while Rilke lived in Paris, and was published in 1910. The novel is semi-autobiographical, and is written in an expressionistic style...

    , novel by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Malte Persson
    Malte Persson
    Malte Persson is a Swedish author. His first book Livet på den här planeten "Life on this planet", a novel, was published in 2002. His subsequent two books are collections of poetry, Apolloprojektet "The Apollo Project" and Dikter "Poems"...

     (born 1976), Swedish author


It is also the French name of Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

.

Surname

  • Ethelreda Malte
    Ethelreda Malte
    Ethelreda Malte, also sometimes named as Audrey Malte , was a lady at the court of Henry VIII of England. She married John Harington and gave birth to a daughter, which they named Hester. She had previously been engaged. Ethelreda owned properties previously belonging to Shaftsbury...

    , alleged illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII of England and the royal laundress.
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