Fronius is a German surname of
Transylvanian Saxon
The Transylvanian Saxons (; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjer Såksen'' or simply ''Soxen'', singularly ''Sox'' or ''Soax''; Transylvanian Landler: ''Soxn'' or ''Soxisch''; ; seldom ''sași ardeleni/transilvăneni/transilvani''; ) are a people ...
origin.
[Myss Walter (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Transylvanian Saxons, Word and World, 1993, p. 135] The Fronius family maintained an aristocratic status within the autonomous region of
Siebenbürgen.
People with the surname include:
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Andreas Fronius (c. 1500-?), city magistrate of Kronstadt, Siebenbürgen, and father of Matthias Fronius
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Franz Friedrich Fronius (1829–1886), Transylvanian-Saxon botanist, ethnologist and Lutheran cleric
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Günter Fronius (born 1907-2015), Austrian entrepreneur
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Fronius International, an Austrian company founded by Günter Fronius
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Hans Fronius
Hans Fronius (12 September 1903 - 21 March 1988) was an Austrians, Austrian Painting, painter and illustration, illustrator.
He was born in Sarajevo, which was then a territory of Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Hercegovina). His father was descen ...
(1903-1988), Austrian painter and illustrator
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Marcus Fronius (1659-1713), Lutheran theologian, pedagogue and author
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Matthias Fronius (1522-1588), Lutheran cleric and city magistrate of Kronstadt
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Sigrid Fronius
Sigrid Fronius (born 23 January 1942) is a German author, journalist and feminist. She was 1968 the first female chairwoman of the Allgemeinen Studierendenausschuss (AStA) at Free University of Berlin and was involved in South America during the ...
(born 1942), German author and journalist
References
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Latin-language surnames
Transylvanian Saxon people
Surnames of Hungarian origin