Schwarzschild () is a
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, ...
[It is likely to be misspelled and/or mispronounced by native English speakers, particularly involving failure to grasp that
* German ''sch'' (at the beginning of ''each'' of the two syllables) is pronounced as English ''sh'',
* German ''w'' is pronounced as English ''v'', and
* German ''z'' is pronounced as English ''ts''.
Some English speakers omit the ''s'' that begins the second syllable and pronounce '']child
A child () is a human being between the stages of childbirth, birth and puberty, or between the Development of the human body, developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking ...
'' and '' childe'' (instead of approximating either English ''shield
A shield is a piece of personal armour held in the hand, which may or may not be strapped to the wrist or forearm. Shields are used to intercept specific attacks, whether from close-ranged weaponry like spears or long ranged projectiles suc ...
'' or German ). meaning "black sign" or "black shield". Notable people with the surname include:
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Henry Schwarzschild (1925–1996), American lawyer
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Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.
Schwarzschild provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-r ...
(1873–1916), German physicist
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Leopold Schwarzschild (1891–1950), German author
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Luise Hercus
Luise Anna Hercus , , (16 January 1926 – 15 April 2018) was a German-born linguist who lived in Australia from 1954. After significant early work on Middle Indo-Aryan dialects (Prakrits) she had specialised in Australian Aboriginal languages si ...
(née Schwarzschild; 1926–2018), Australian linguist
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Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild (1931–2020), German Holocaust survivor
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Martin Schwarzschild
Martin Schwarzschild (May 31, 1912 – April 10, 1997) was a German-American astrophysicist. The Schwarzschild criterion, for the stability of stellar gas against convention, is named after him.
Biography
Schwarzschild was born in Potsdam ...
(1912–1997), German-American astronomer
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Shimon Schwarzschild (1925–2021), German-born American environmental activist
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Steven Schwarzschild (1924–1989), American rabbi, philosopher, theologian and editor
See also
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Rothschild
Rothschild () is a name derived from the German ''zum rothen Schild'' (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "to the red shield", in reference to the houses where these family members lived or had lived. At the time, houses were designated by signs ...
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Surnames of Jewish origin
Yiddish-language surnames