Lipschitz, Lipshitz, or Lipchitz, is an
Ashkenazi Jewish
Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that Ethnogenesis, emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium Common era, CE. They traditionally spe ...
(
Yiddish
Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...
/German-Jewish) surname. The surname has many variants, including:
Lifshitz (
Lifschitz),
Lifshits,
Lifshuts,
Lefschetz; Lipschitz, Lipshitz,
Lipshits, Lopshits,
Lipschutz (
Lipschütz),
Lipshutz,
Lüpschütz;
Libschitz;
Livshits;
Lifszyc,
Lipszyc. It is commonly Anglicized as
Lipton
Lipton is a brand named after its founder, Sir Thomas Lipton, Tom Lipton, who started an eponymous grocery retail business in the United Kingdom in 1871. The brand was used for various consumer goods sold in Lipton stores, including tea from 1 ...
, and less commonly as Lipson and Lipington.
There are several places in Europe from where the name may be derived. In all cases, ''Lip'' or ''Lib'' is derived from the Slavic root ''lipa'' (linden tree, see also
Leipzig
Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...
), and the ''itz'' ending is the Germanisation of the Slavic place name ending ''ice''.
In the Czech Republic:
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Libčice nad Vltavou (German: Libschitz an der Moldau)
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Liběšice u Litoměřic (German: Liebeschitz bei Leitmeritz)
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Liběšice u Žatce (German: Libeschitz bei Saaz)
In Germany:
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Gera
Gera () is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of ...
-Liebschwitz
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Liebschützberg-Liebschütz
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Remptendorf-Liebschütz
In Poland:
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Głubczyce (
Silesian German: Lischwitz, German: Leobschütz)
In mathematics, the name can be used to describe a function that satisfies the
Lipschitz condition, a strong form of continuity, named after
Rudolf Lipschitz.
The surname may refer to:
People
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Daniel Lipšic, former Minister of Interior in Slovakia
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Israel Lipschitz (1782–1860), rabbi and biblical scholar
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Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, domi ...
(1891–1973), Cubist sculptor
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Lippy Lipshitz (1903–1980), South African sculptor, painter and printmaker
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Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), German mathematician
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Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher, born as Imre Lipschitz
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Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, born as Ralph Lifshitz
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Hal Linden, American actor, and television personality, born Harold Lipschitz
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Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972), Russian–US mathematician
* Joachim Lipschitz, German politician
Fictional characters
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Dr. Werner P. Lipschitz, fictional character of the ''Rugrats'' series
Berlin subway station
* There is a subway station
Lipschitzallee (Lipschitz Avenue) in Berlin, named after politician Joachim Lipschitz
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