Kirchner

Kirchner, a surname of German origin, from the Middle High German word, 'kirchenaere' (English: 'sexton'). Kirchner originated as an occupational surname for a church worker, such as a priest, church assistant or a church property administrator.^[1] Notable people with the name include:

Arts[]

Alfred Kirchner (born 1937), German actor, theatre director, opera director, theatre manager
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist artist
Ignaz Kirchner (1946–2018), German actor
Jaime Lee Kirchner (1981), American actress
Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), American composer
Marilena Kirchner (1997), German volksmusik and schlager singer
Paul Kirchner (1952), American illustrator and comic-book author
Raphael Kirchner (1876–1917), Austrian artist and illustrator
Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903), German composer
Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), German violist and composer

Politics[]

Alicia Kirchner (1946), Argentine politician
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Vice President of Argentina
Máximo Kirchner (1977), Argentine politician
Néstor Kirchner (1950–2010), former President of Argentina
William G. Kirchner (1916-1999), American politician and businessman

Sports[]

Albert Edward Lester "Alby" Kirchner (1888–1942), Australian rules footballer
Andreas Kirchner (1953-2010), German hammer thrower and bob pusher
H. E. Kirchner (1937–1993), American basketball player
Mark Kirchner (1970), German biathlete
Michael Kirchner or Corporal Kirchner (1957–2021), American professional wrestler
Zane Kirchner (1984), South African rugby player

Other[]

16441 Kirchner, asteroid discovered in 1989
Friedrich Kirchner (1885–1960), German General during the Second World War
James Kirchner, University of California professor
Johanna Kirchner (1889–1944), anti-Nazi dissident
Kirchner's viscacha rat, species of rodents in the family Octodontidae described in 2014,^[2] one of two species in the genus Tympanoctomys^[2]^[3]
Kirchner Cultural Centre, cultural centre located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Kirchneriella, genus of green algae in the family Selenastraceae^[4]
Kirchner Peak, isolated peak in Antarctica
Kirchnerism, Argentine political movement
Kirchner v. Venus (1859), English Law case precedent that defined freight as "the reward payable to the carrier of for the safe carriage and delivery of goods"
Oskar von Kirchner (1851–1925), German botanist and agronomist

References[]

^ "Kirchner Name Meaning & Kirchner Family History at Ancestry.com". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
^ ^a ^b Pablo Teta; Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas; Daniel E. Udrizar Sauthier i Milton H. Gallardo (2014), "A new species of the tetraploid vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys (Caviomorpha, Octodontidae) from central Patagonia, Argentina", Journal of Mammalogy, 95 (1): 60–71, doi:10.1644/13-MAMM-A-160
^ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1573. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^ See the NCBI webpage on Kirchneriella. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2020-12-29.

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[1] "Kirchner Name Meaning & Kirchner Family History at Ancestry.com". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

[jm-2] Pablo Teta; Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas; Daniel E. Udrizar Sauthier i Milton H. Gallardo (2014), "A new species of the tetraploid vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys (Caviomorpha, Octodontidae) from central Patagonia, Argentina", Journal of Mammalogy, 95 (1): 60–71, doi:10.1644/13-MAMM-A-160

[MSW3-3] Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1573. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[4] See the NCBI webpage on Kirchneriella. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2020-12-29.

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