Kirchner
Appearance
Kirchner, a surname of German origin, from the Middle High German word, 'kirchenaere' (English: 'sexton'). Kirchner originated as an occupational surname for a church worker, such as a priest, church assistant or a church property administrator.[1] Notable people with the name include:
Arts
[edit]- Alfred Kirchner (born 1937), German actor, theatre director, opera director, theatre manager
- Athanasius Kircher, a/k/a Athanasius Kirchner (1602–1680), German Jesuit scholar and polymath
- Claude Kirchner (1916–1993), American television announcer and children's personality
- Emma Kirchner (1830–1909), German photographer who lived and worked in the Netherlands.
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist artist
- Ignaz Kirchner (1946–2018), German actor
- Jaime Lee Kirchner (1981), American actress
- Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), American composer
- Marilena Kirchner (1997), German volksmusik and schlager singer
- Paul Kirchner (1952), American illustrator and comic-book author
- Raphael Kirchner (1876–1917), Austrian artist and illustrator
- Shabier Kirchner (born 1987/1988), Antiguan cinematographer and filmmaker
- Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903), German composer
- Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), German violist and composer
Politics
[edit]- Alicia Kirchner (born 1946), Argentine politician
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953), Argentine politician, former President and Vice-President of Argentina
- Máximo Kirchner (born 1977), Argentine politician
- Néstor Kirchner (1950–2010), former President of Argentina
- Russ Kirchner Jr., American businessman
- William G. Kirchner (1916–1999), American politician and businessman
Sports
[edit]- Albert Edward Lester "Alby" Kirchner (1888–1942), Australian rules footballer
- Andreas Kirchner (1953–2010), German hammer thrower and bob pusher
- H. E. Kirchner (1937–1993), American basketball player
- Mark Kirchner (1970), German biathlete
- Michael Kirchner or Corporal Kirchner (1957–2021), American professional wrestler
- Zane Kirchner (1984), South African rugby player
Other
[edit]- 16441 Kirchner, asteroid discovered in 1989
- Friedrich Kirchner (1885–1960), German General during the Second World War
- James Kirchner, University of California professor
- Johanna Kirchner (1889–1944), anti-Nazi dissident
- Kirchner's viscacha rat, species of rodents in the family Octodontidae described in 2014,[2] one of two species in the genus Tympanoctomys[2][3]
- Kirchner Cultural Centre, cultural centre located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Kirchneriella, genus of green algae in the family Selenastraceae[4]
- Kirchner Peak, isolated peak in Antarctica
- Kirchnerism, Argentine political movement
- Kirchner v. Venus (1859), English Law case precedent that defined freight as "the reward payable to the carrier of for the safe carriage and delivery of goods"
- Oskar von Kirchner (1851–1925), German botanist and agronomist
References
[edit]- ^ "Kirchner Name Meaning & Kirchner Family History at Ancestry.com". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- ^ a b Pablo Teta; Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas; Daniel E. Udrizar Sauthier i Milton H. Gallardo (2014), "A new species of the tetraploid vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys (Caviomorpha, Octodontidae) from central Patagonia, Argentina", Journal of Mammalogy, 95 (1): 60–71, doi:10.1644/13-MAMM-A-160, hdl:11336/22721
- ^ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1573. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Kirchneriella. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2020-12-29.