Münch or Muench is a

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surname, meaning "monk". Notable people with this surname include the following: *

Edvard Munch Edvard Munch ( ; ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work ''The Scream'' has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inher ...

(1863–1944), Norwegian Expressionist Painter, best known for "The Scream" *

Aloisius Joseph Muench Aloisius Joseph Muench (February 18, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Fargo from 1935 to 1959, and as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany from 1951 to 1959. He was elevated to the ...

(1889–1962), German-American cardinal, Papal Nuncio to Germany 1951–1959 *

Burkhard VII. Münch Burkhard VII. Münch (died 29 August 1444) was a knight and life peer, a renowned late member of the Château de Landskron, Landskron branch of the Münch (family lineage), Münch family. His reputation rests primarily on his death at the Battle of ...

(died 1444), Swiss knight *

Charles Munch (conductor) Charles Munch (; born Karl Münch; 26 September 1891 – 6 November 1968) was an Alsacian French symphonic conductor and violinist. Noted for his mastery of the French orchestral repertoire, he was best known as music director of the Boston ...

, born Münch (1891–1968), Alsatian conductor *

Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen () (2 April 180622 May 1871) was an Austrian dramatist, poet and novella writer of the Austrian Biedermeier period and beyond, and is more generally known under his pseudonym Friedrich Halm. L ...

(1806–1871), Austrian playwright better known by his pen name, Friedrich Halm * Ernst Münch (musician) (1859–1928), Alsatian organist *

Ernst Münch Ernst Münch (26 November 1876 – 9 October 1946) was a German plant physiologist who proposed the pressure flow hypothesis in 1930. He studied in Aschaffenburg, and then in Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of ...

(1876–1946), German plant physiologist *

Friedrich Münch Friedrich Münch (born June 25, 1799, Niedergemünden, Holy Roman Empire – died in 1881, Dutzow, Missouri) was a German-American rationalist, winemaker, Missouri State Senator, and prolific author for German emigrants, beginning in the 1 ...

(1799–1881), German-American Rationalist, winemaker, Missouri State Senator and prolific author for German emigrants *

Guido Münch Guido Münch Paniagua (June 9, 1921 – 29 April 2020) was a Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist. Biography Münch was born in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico. He studied civil engineering and mathematics at the National Autonomous Univer ...

(1921–2020), Mexican astronomer *

Hans Münch Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German oc ...

(1911–2001), SS doctor acquitted in the Auschwitz trials *

Hartung Münch Hartung Münch von Landskron ( 1265 – 25 October 1332) was bishop of Basel The Diocese of Basel (; ) is a Latin Church, Latin Catholic diocese in Switzerland. Historically, the bishops of Basel were also secular rulers of the Prince-Bishopri ...

(c. 1265–1332), Bishop of Basel from 1325 to 1328 * Helmut Münch (1939–2024), German computer scientist and politician * Julitta Münch (1959-2020), German journalist * Richard Münch (1916–1987), German actor *

Werner Münch Dr. Werner Münch (born 25 September 1940 in Bottrop, Province of Westphalia) is a German politician ( CDU). After the reunification of Germany he moved to Saxony-Anhalt where he became the first Financial Minister of this state since refoundin ...

(born 1940), German politician of the CDU party *

Münch (family lineage) The Münch were a Swiss knightly family in the city of Basel and its environs. The first mention of the family dates from 1154; it died out in 1759. In the thirteenth century it was, with the Schaler family, one the most influential families in ...

, noble family originating in Basel, Switzerland, including the branches Münch von Münchenstein, Münch von Münchsberg and Münch von Landskro

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