Buchner (family name)
Buchner is the family name of the following people:
Origin and meaning
According to Germany's digital family name dictionary, there are two options for the etymology of the name. The name comes from the Middle High German buoch 'Buchenwald, Forst' and stands for someone who lives in a (beech) forest. Alternatively, people were named after the settlement name Buch (very often especially in Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria as well as in Austria and Switzerland), beeches (often in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, in Austria and Switzerland, historically also in the Czech Republic), Buchau (several times mainly in Bavaria, historically also in the Czech Republic and Poland), Buchenau (several times, mainly in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria, and historically in Poland) so called.
A.
- Abraham Buchner (1789–1869), teacher at the Warsaw Rabbinical School
- Alois Buchner (1783–1869), German theologian
- Andreas Buchner (historian) (1776–1854), German historian and theologian
- Andreas Buchner (soccer player) (* 1985), German soccer player
- August Buchner (1591–1661), German poet
- August Buchner (publicist) (1848–1899), German publicist
- Axel Buchner (* 1961), German psychologist
B.
- Barbara Buchner (* 1974), Austrian economist, consultant and author
- Benedikt Buchner (* 1970), German law scholar and university professor
C.
- Carl Buchner (1821–1918), German painter and photographer
- Carl Christian Buchner (1817–1886), also: Karl Christian Buchner , German publisher and art collector
- Charles Buchner (1842–1907), Bishop of the Moravian Brethren
- Christoph Buchner (* 1989), German soccer player
D.
- Daniel Buchner (* 1967), Swiss architect
- Dennis Buchner (* 1977), German politician
E.
- Edmund Buchner (1923–2011), German ancient historian
- Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), German chemist
- Ernst Buchner (medic) (1812–1872), German forensic doctor and obstetrician
- Ernst Buchner (painter) (1886–1951), Swiss painter
- Ernst Buchner (art historian) (1892–1962), German art historian
- Ernst Hendrik Buchner (1880–1967), Dutch chemist
F.
- Franz Buchner (1898–1967), German politician, MdR
- Franz Xaver Buchner (1872–1959), German Catholic church historian
- Friedrich Buchner (1839–1882), German architect
- Fritz Buchner (1857 / 1858–1909), German publisher
G
- Georg Buchner (politician, before 1831) (before 1831 – after 1836), German farmer and politician, MdL Bavaria
- Georg Buchner (pianist) (1836–1890), German pianist and writer
- Georg Buchner (painter) (1858–1914), German painter and graphic artist
- Georg Buchner (architect) (1890–1971), German architect
- Georg Buchner (politician, 1896) (1896 – after 1948), German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- Georg Paul Buchner (1779–1833), German musician, painter and printer
- Giorgio Buchner (1914–2005), German-Italian archaeologist
H
- Hans Buchner (composer) (1483–1538), German organist and composer
- Hans Buchner (physician) (1850–1902), German hygienist
- Hans Buchner (painter) (1856–1941), German painter
- Hans Buchner (publisher) (1865–1930 or 1938), German publisher
- Hans Buchner (politician) (1896–1971), German politician (NSDAP)
- Hans Buchner (officer) (1901–1995), German brigadier general
- Hans Buchner (zoologist) (1906–1997), German zoologist
- Hans Buchner (chemist) (* 1956/1957), German chemist
- Hans-Jürgen Buchner (* 1944), German musician and composer
- Heinrich Buchner (1904–2001), German manufacturer
- Herbert Buchner (* 1939), German lawyer
- Hermann Buchner (* 1941), Austrian dialect poet
J
- Joachim Buchner (1824–1918), German painter
- Johann Buchner (politician, I) , Austrian politician, member of the Salzburg state parliament
- Johann Buchner (clergyman) (1852–1910), Austrian clergyman
- Johann Buchner (politician, 1950) (* 1950), Austrian politician (FPÖ), member of the Salzburg state parliament
- Johann Andreas Buchner (1783–1852), German pharmacist
- Johann Georg Buchner (1815–1857), German painter and photographer
- Johannes Buchner (* 1960), German molecular biologist
- Josef Buchner (politician) (* 1942), Austrian politician
- Josef Buchner (Nordic combined) (* 1974), Nordic combined
- Josef Buchner (singer) ( Gamsei ; 1882–1956), German singer, folk song collector, composer and lyricist
- Josef Andreas Buchner (1776–1854), German historian and university professor
- Julia Buchner , Austrian pop singer
K
- Karl Buchner (lawyer) (1800–1872), German lawyer and writer
- Karl Buchner (architect) (1845–1893), German architect and building contractor
- Klaus Buchner (* 1941), German physicist and politician (ödp)
- Kurt Oskar Buchner (actually Kurt Oskar Schmidt ; 1912–1994), German poet, author of books for young people and children
L.
- Ludwig Buchner (musician) (* 1957), German musician and music teacher
- Ludwig Andreas Buchner (1813–1897), German doctor and pharmacologist
- Ludwig Gottlieb Buchner (1711–1779), German librarian
M.
- Max Buchner (physician) (1846–1921), German physician and ethnographer
- Max Buchner (chemist) (1866–1934), German chemist and entrepreneur
- Max Buchner (historian) (1881–1941), German historian and editor
- Melchior Buchner (1695–1758), German painter and plasterer
- Mirl Buchner (1924–2014), German ski racer
O
- Otto Buchner (1828–1897), German teacher, classical scholar and local researcher
P
- Paul Buchner (master builder) (1531–1607), German master builder
- Paul Buchner (biologist) (1886–1978), German zoologist
- Peter Buchner (* 1966), German rail manager (S-Bahn Berlin)
- Philipp Friedrich Buchner (1614–1669), German composer
R.
- Rudolf Buchner (painter) (1894–1962), Austrian painter
- Rudolf Buchner (historian) (1908–1985), German historian
S.
- Sepp Buchner (artist) (1921–2000), Austrian painter and graphic artist
- Sepp Buchner (* 1974), nickname of the German Nordic Combiner, see Josef Buchner (Nordic Combiner)
- Stefan Buchner (* 1960), German industrial engineer and head of the Daimler Trucks and Buses division
W.
- Wilhelm Buchner (1827–1900), German high school teacher and writer
- Wolfgang Buchner (* 1946), Austrian painter and sculptor