Amadeus (name) name "Theophilos" means "friend of God". Amadeus (name) Amadeus is a theophoric given name derived from the Latin words ' – the imperative of the word ' (to love) – and "" (god). As a linguistic compound in the form of a phereoikos, it means "Love god!". The best-known bearer of the name is the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German-language calque is "'. Borrowings include the female form, "Amadea", the French "Amédée" (male), the Spanish "Amadeo", the Italian "Amedeo", and "Amadis", the Polish "Amadeusz" . Similar Slavic names include "Bogomil" and "Bohumil" meaning "Dear to God". The Arabic "Habibullah"
Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart life. Beyond the Salieri theory, other theories involving murder by poison have been put forth, blaming the Masons, Jews, or both. One such theory was the work of Mathilde Ludendorff, wife of the German general Erich Ludendorff. William Stafford (1991) describes such accounts as outlandish conspiracy theories, giving supporting reasons. Stafford (1991:56) described the effort to determine what disease killed Mozart: In the parish register, the entry concerning Mozart's death states he died of "severe miliary fever"; – "miliary" referring to the appearance of millet-sized bumps on the skin. This does not name the actual disease. Mozart had health problems