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Fischer is a German occupational surname, meaning fisherman. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The English version is Fisher.
Fischer is a German occupational surname, meaning fisherman. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The English version is Fisher.
May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 243 days remain until the end of the year.
Schröder (Schroeder) is a German surname often associated with the Schröder family. Notable people with the surname include:
Adolf is a given name with German origins.
The German word Müller means "miller". It is the most common family surname in Germany, Switzerland, and the French départements of Bas-Rhin and Moselle and is the fifth most common surname in Austria. Other forms are Miller and Möller. Of the various family coats of arms that exist, many incorporate milling iconography, such as windmills or watermill wheels.
Breuer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Norbert is a Germanic given name and infrequent surname, from nord "north" and berht "bright".
Also known as Friedhof Fluntern, the Fluntern Cemetery is located in the Zürichberg district of Zürich.
Schneider is a very common surname in Germany. Alternative spellings include: Schneyder, Schnieder, Snyder, Snider, Sneider, Schnyder, Znaider, Schnaider, Schneiter, Shneider, and Sneijder, Snijder (Dutch), Snither (English), Snyman (Afrikaans), Schnider, Sznajder, Szneider (Polish), Snaider, Šnajder (Serbo-Croatian), and Schneidre (French).
Winkler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Roth is an English, German, or Jewish origin surname. There are seven theories on its origin:
Arnold is a masculine German, Dutch and English given name. It is composed of the Germanic elements arn "eagle" and wald "power, brightness". The name is first recorded in Francia from about the 7th century, at first often conflated with the name Arnulf, as in the name of bishop Arnulf of Metz, also recorded as Arnoald. Arnulf appears to be the older name, and German (Frankish) Arnold may have originally arisen in c. the 7th century as a corruption of Arnulf, possibly by conflation of similar names such as Hari-wald, Arn-hald, etc.
Béla is a common Hungarian male given name. Its most likely etymology is from old Hungarian bél. Other possible etymological source is a Turkic word boila/boyla – "noble, distinguished", or a variant of Ábel.
Leopold is the modern form of the Germanic name Luitbald, composed of two stems, common to Germanic names. The first part is related to Old High German liut meaning "people", the second part bald or balt is of Germanic origin and means "brave". The name is not related to the names Leon and Leonard which mean lion. The name gradually spread across Western Europe and during the 16th century it became popular in the southern Holy Roman Empire, due to the influence of the Margraves of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty.
Rudolph or Rudolf or Rodolphe is a male first name, and, less commonly, a surname. It is an ancient Germanic name deriving from two stems: Hrōþi, Hruod, Hróðr or Hrōð, meaning "fame", "glory" "honour", "renown", and olf meaning "wolf" (Hrōþiwulfaz).
Rosenberg is a family name and toponym of German and Swedish origin. Its principal meaning is "mountain of roses", from Rose + Berg. However, as a toponym, in some locations it may have originally meant "red mountain" or simply "red hill", from rot + Berg. The terminal consonant of the /rot/-/roθ/-/roð/-/ros/ syllable has varied across regions and centuries; there are many variations of the name, including Rozenberg, Rotenberg, Rottenberg, Rothenberg and Rodenberg. It is also a common name among Ashkenazi Jews.
The name Emil, Emile, or Émile is a male given name meaning rival, deriving from the Latin Aemilius of the gens Aemilia. The female given name is Emily.
Fuchs is a surname; it has as variants Fux, Fuhs and Fuchß. Notable persons bearing it include the following: