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Timmermann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Hans Timmermann (1926–2005), German television actor * Jens Timmermann (born 1970), German philosopher * Tom Timmermann (born 1940), American baseball player See also * Zimmermann Zimmermann is a German occupational surname for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. ''Zimmer'' in German means room or archaically a chamber wi ... {{surname German-language surnames ...
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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 " Western order" of "given name, surname", unless it occurs in an alphabetized list of surnames, e.g. "Bach, Johann Sebastian". In this, the German conventions parallel the naming conventions in most of Western and Central Europe, including English, Dutch, Italian, and 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 ''Doppelname'', e.g. " Else Lasker-Schüler". Recent legislation motivated by gender equality now allows a married couple to choose the surname they want to use, including an option ...
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Jens Timmermann
Jens Timmermann (born 1 May 1970) is a German philosopher and the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is best known for his research on Kant’s ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law. Books * ''Sittengesetz Und Freiheit: Untersuchungen Zu Immanuel Kants Theorie Des Freien Willens'', De Gruyter, 2003 * ''Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary'', Cambridge University Press, 2007 * ''Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals': A Critical Guide'' (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2009 * ''Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: A Critical Guide'', Co-editor with Andrews Reath, Cambridge University Press, 2010 * ''Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'': ''A German-English Edition'', ed. and tr. Mary Gregor and Jens Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2011 * ''Kant's 'Tugendlehre, Co-editor with Oliver Sensen and Andreas Trampota, De Gruyter, 2013 * ''The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy ''The Cambrid ...
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Tom Timmermann
Thomas Henry Timmermann (born May 12, 1940) is a former American baseball player. He played professional baseball for 15 years from 1960 to 1974, including six seasons in Major League Baseball as a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (1969–1973) and Cleveland Indians (1973–1974). He compiled a 35–35 win–loss record and a 3.78 earned run average (ERA), and recorded 35 saves and 315 strikeouts, in 228 major league games and 548 innings pitched. After setting a Detroit club record with 61 pitching appearances in 1970, all as a relief specialist, Timmermann was voted " Tiger of the Year" by the Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. During a minor league game in 1968, he tied a professional baseball record by recording the maximum of 27 infield outs in a nine-inning game for the Criollas de Caguas in the Puerto Rican Winter League. Early years Timmermann was born in Breese, Illinois, in 1940. He grew up on a dirt farm on the Illinois prairie, attend ...
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Zimmermann
Zimmermann is a German occupational surname for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. ''Zimmer'' in German means room or archaically a chamber within a structure. The German ''man'' or ''mann'' (in English the extra ''n'' is ignored) is man or worker. The combination of the two means "a worker of wood", "room man" or room worker.Combined from several sources including: ''Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary'', 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books, and ''Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition'' by Oxford University Press. Zimmermann, as a surname is often confused with Zimmerman. The loss or addition of the double "n" may imply many things. This may include linguistic, racial, ethnic, religious or other cultural variations.Zimmerman - Zimmermann name history - http://www.ancestry.com/facts/zimmerman-family-history.ashx Many German names were often Anglicized or simplified by i ...
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