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Goldschmidt AM
Goldschmidt is a German surname meaning "Goldsmith". Notable people with the surname include: * Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848–1906), composer * Adolph Goldschmidt (1863–1944), art historian * Adolphe Goldschmidt (1838–1918), German-British banker * Alfons Goldschmidt * Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996), composer * Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (1807-1851), astronomer, mathematician, and physicist * Christina Goldschmidt, British statistician * David M. Goldschmidt (born 1942), American mathematician * Edmond Goldschmidt (1863–1934), French photographer * Elisabeth Goldschmidt (1912–1970), Israeli geneticist * Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954), Austrian-British bookseller and bibliophile * Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 1928), French writer and translator of German origin * Hans Goldschmidt (1861–1923), chemist, son of Theodor Goldschmidt * Harold Goldsmith, born Hans Goldschmidt (1930–2004), American Olympic foil and épée fencer * Heinrich Jacob Goldschmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Surname
Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname''). The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the "Name order, Western order" of "given name, surname". The most common exceptions are alphabetized list of surnames, e.g. "Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach, Johann Sebastian", as well as some official documents and spoken southern German dialects. In most of this, the German conventions parallel the naming conventions in most of Western and Central Europe, including English name, English, Dutch name, Dutch, Italian name, Italian, and French name, French. There are some vestiges of a patronymic system as they survive in parts of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, but these do not form part of the official name. Women traditionally adopted their husband's name upon marriage and would occasionally retain their maiden name by hyphenation, in a so-called ''Doppelna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |