Christoffel
Christoffel is a male first name and family name :
First name:
- Christoffel van Dijck (approx. 1605–1669), Dutch printer
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622–1676), German writer
- Christoffel Plantijn (around 1520–1589), printer and publisher
Family name:
- Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829–1900), German mathematician
- Ernst Jakob Christoffel (1876–1955), Protestant pastor and founder of the Christoffel Mission for the Blind
- Hans Christoffel (1888–1959), Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Karl Christoffel (1895–1986), German historian, writer and wine poet
- Martin Christoffel (1922–2001), Swiss chess player
- Paul Christoffel (* 1960), Swiss ice hockey player
- Rageth Christoffel (1810–1875), Swiss Reformed pastor and educator
- Ulrich Christoffel (1891–1975), Swiss art historian
See also:
- Christoffel Mission for the Blind
- Christoffel symbols in differential geometry
- Christoffel – Darboux formula, see Orthogonal Polynomials
- Sint-Christoffelberg on the Antilles island of Curaçao
- former Christoffelturm in Bern
- Christoffelpark , National Park on Curacao
