📖 À propos Jacobo
Jacobo est la forme espagnole de Jacob, signifiant 'celui qui supplante'; elle préserve la forme latino-hébraïque originale le plus fidèlement et a été portée par deux figures latino-américaines marquantes du XXe siècle: le président guatémaltèque Jacobo Arbenz, renversé par un coup d'État de la CIA en 1954, et le journaliste argentin Jacobo Timerman, emprisonné durant la Guerre sale.
📍 Détails
- OrigineHebrew
- Genre♂ Masculin
- SignificationVariant of Jacob. Supplanter, holder of the heel
🔀 Variantes et Prénoms Associés
⭐ Personnes Célèbres
- Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán — President of Guatemala (1951-1954) whose land reform programme redistributed United Fruit Company land to peasant farmers; his government was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup (Operation PBSUCCESS) in 1954, in one of the most consequential acts of Cold War interventionism in Latin America; his removal set off decades of Guatemalan civil conflict.
- Jacobo Timerman — Argentine newspaper editor and journalist (1923-1999); imprisoned and tortured without trial during Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983); his memoir Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number became an international indictment of the junta's human rights abuses and won him global recognition as a champion of press freedom and human dignity.
- Jacob (Biblical Patriarch) — Third of the Hebrew Patriarchs, son of Isaac and Rebekah; his famous nighttime wrestling match with a divine being ended with him receiving the name Israel ('one who struggles with God'); ancestor of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and the entire Jewish people; his story spans much of the Book of Genesis.
- Jacobo de Voragine — Italian archbishop and hagiographer (c. 1230-1298) whose Golden Legend (Legenda Aurea) compiled lives of the saints and became one of the most widely read books of the Middle Ages, second only to the Bible; it shaped Catholic devotion and iconography for centuries.