Kirchner
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
- Alfred Kirchner (born 1937), German actor, theatre director, opera director, theatre manager
- 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
- Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903), German composer
- Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), German violist and composer
Politics
- Alicia Kirchner (1946), Argentine politician
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Vice President of Argentina
- Máximo Kirchner (1977), Argentine politician
- Néstor Kirchner (1950–2010), former President of Argentina
Sports
- Albert Edward Lester "Alby" Kirchner (1888–1942), Australian rules footballer
- Andreas Kirchner (1953-2010), German hammer thrower and bob pusher
- Mark Kirchner (1970), German biathlete
- Michael Kirchner (1957), American professional wrestler
- Zane Kirchner (1984), South African rugby player
Other
- 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 Antartica
- 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
- Werner Kirchner (1918–2008), Polish/American RAF fighter pilot, later chemist, rocket fuel specialist. CEO of some companies, including Teledyne and Kirchner Industries[5]
See also
- Athanasius Kircher (sometimes spelled Kirchner), 17th century German scholar
References
- "Kirchner Name Meaning & Kirchner Family History at Ancestry.com". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- 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
- 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.
- "Kirchner, Werner Richard". www.poles.org. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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