Günzburg is a surname of
Swabian origin. Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Gensburg, Ginsburgh, Ginzberg, Ginzborg, and Ginzburg are variants of the surname.
History
The Günzburg (
Cyrillic: Гинзбург Ginzburg, Гинцбург Gintsburg;
Yiddish: גינזבורגGinzburg, גינצבורג Gintsburg) family originated in the town of
Günzburg,
Bavaria. It is believed that the family went there from the city of
Ulm,
Württemberg, and that for this reason the best-known progenitor of the family and some of his immediate descendants, as well as certain others, called themselves "Ulma-Günzburg".[1]
It is also an
Ashkenazi Jewishsurname. When, early in the emancipation period, the
Jews of
Russia and of
Austria were ordered by their governments to adopt family names, it was natural that many of them should choose a name so respected and pleasing as that of Günzburg. There is on record a lawsuit instituted by
Baer Günzburg of
Grodno against a Jewish family of that city who had adopted the same name under the decree of 1804.[2] The court sustained the right of Jewish families to adopt any name they chose, and the number of Günzburg families accordingly increased.
The name is composed of two German elements. Burg means "castle" or "citadel". This commonly was also used to describe a walled settlement or town, hence common usage in town names such as Hamburg (from Old German: Hammaburg, lit. "castle above the river bend").[3] The river name Günz is ultimately derived from the Indo-European root *gheu-, meaning "to pour". Thus, Günzburg refers to a "fortified town by the river Günz".[4]
Serge Gainsbourg, né Lucien Ginsburg, (1928–1991) French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director
Seymour Ginsburg (1927–2004), computer science pioneer of automata, formal language, and database theories
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surnameGünzburg. If an
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Günzburg is a surname of
Swabian origin. Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Gensburg, Ginsburgh, Ginzberg, Ginzborg, and Ginzburg are variants of the surname.
History
The Günzburg (
Cyrillic: Гинзбург Ginzburg, Гинцбург Gintsburg;
Yiddish: גינזבורגGinzburg, גינצבורג Gintsburg) family originated in the town of
Günzburg,
Bavaria. It is believed that the family went there from the city of
Ulm,
Württemberg, and that for this reason the best-known progenitor of the family and some of his immediate descendants, as well as certain others, called themselves "Ulma-Günzburg".[1]
It is also an
Ashkenazi Jewishsurname. When, early in the emancipation period, the
Jews of
Russia and of
Austria were ordered by their governments to adopt family names, it was natural that many of them should choose a name so respected and pleasing as that of Günzburg. There is on record a lawsuit instituted by
Baer Günzburg of
Grodno against a Jewish family of that city who had adopted the same name under the decree of 1804.[2] The court sustained the right of Jewish families to adopt any name they chose, and the number of Günzburg families accordingly increased.
The name is composed of two German elements. Burg means "castle" or "citadel". This commonly was also used to describe a walled settlement or town, hence common usage in town names such as Hamburg (from Old German: Hammaburg, lit. "castle above the river bend").[3] The river name Günz is ultimately derived from the Indo-European root *gheu-, meaning "to pour". Thus, Günzburg refers to a "fortified town by the river Günz".[4]
Serge Gainsbourg, né Lucien Ginsburg, (1928–1991) French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director
Seymour Ginsburg (1927–2004), computer science pioneer of automata, formal language, and database theories
This page lists people with the
surnameGünzburg. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.