Herschel (name)
Herschel is a family name that is rarely used as a first name.
The surname Herschel has several meanings:
- Reduction of deer for a hunter or as a nickname ("nimble as a deer")
- as a Jewish family name derived from the Jacob's blessing with its animal comparisons, here Gen 49,21 GNB : Naftali is a fast deer ...
- millet
The anglicized spelling is Hershel .
Well-known namesake
- Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), German astronomer, sister of Wilhelm Herschel
- Bernhard Herschel (1837–1905), Mannheim city councilor and businessman, founder of the Herschelbad
- Hans Herschel (1875–1930), German politician (center)
- Hasso Herschel (* 1935), escape helper on the German-German border
- Jacob Herschel (1734–1792), concert music master
- Sir John Herschel (also Johann Friedrich Wilhelm ; 1792–1871), chemist and astronomer, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, son of Wilhelm Herschel
- Knut Herschel (1948–1999), German grandmaster in correspondence chess
- (Friedrich) Wilhelm Herschel (later also William ; 1738–1822), German-British musician and astronomer, discoverer of the planet Uranus and infrared radiation
- Otto Herschel (1871–1958), Austrian painter of Jewish descent
- Wilhelm Herschel (lawyer) (1895–1986), German lawyer
- William James Herschel , 2nd Baronet of Collingwood (1833–1917), British colonial administrator in Bengal, pioneer in dactyloscopy, son of John Herschel
First name
- Herschel Daugherty (1910–1993), American film director
- Herschel Evans (1909–1939), American swing jazz tenor saxophonist
- Herschel Grynszpan (* 1921, lost in 1942) carried out an assassination attempt which the National Socialists used as a pretext for the November 1938 pogroms
- Herschel Haft (1925-2006), American boxer of Polish origin, see Harry Haft
- Herschel M. Hogg (1853–1934), American politician
- Herschel C. Loveless (1911–1989), American politician and Governor of Iowa
- Herschel McCoy (1912–1956), American costume designer
- Herschel Savage (* 1952, actually Harvey Cowen), American porn actor
- Herschel Vespasian Johnson (1812–1880), American politician and governor of Georgia
- Herschel Walker (born 1962), American football player
fictional people
- Herschel Krustofski alias Krusty, the clown , character from the television series The Simpsons , see characters from The Simpsons # Krusty, the clown (Herschel Krustofski)
- Hershel Greene, a permanent role in the series The Walking Dead (TV series) , medics of the protagonist group.
- Herschel Stamm, character in Jurek Becker's novel Jakob the Liar
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Duden family names, ISBN 3-411-70852-2
- ↑ a b Gottwald German onenology, de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-018032-9