Hippel

Hippel , also Hiepel and Hipel , is a family name . The earliest mentions were in the Heilsberg district in East Prussia .

meaning

• For the majority of the namesake a job title based on Middle High German hip (p) e , hipelin " rolled up, wafer-shaped cake" and describes the seller or baker of waffles .
• More rarely, an explanation as an indirect professional name that refers to the work of the ancestor with a hip , hip (p) e, hibbe (sickle knife, curved garden knife , cleaver ) is used. The formation of the name with the help of the diminutive ending -el indicates that it was formed from the West Central German, Franconian, Thuringian or Upper Saxon language.

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Name bearer

• German noble family; see Hippel (noble family)
• Arthur von Hippel (ophthalmologist) (1841-1916), German ophthalmologist
• Arthur R. von Hippel (1898–2003), German-American materials scientist and physicist
• Bruno-Augustin Hippel (1907–1970), German clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Oudtshoorn
• Eike von Hippel (1935–2016), German legal scholar and author
• Eric von Hippel (* 1941), American economist, university professor and innovation researcher
• Ernst von Hippel (1895–1984), German legal scholar
• Eugen von Hippel (1867–1939), German ophthalmologist
• Frank von Hippel (* 1937), American physicist
• Fritz von Hippel (1897–1991), German lawyer and legal philosopher
• Georg von Hippel (1802–1878), Prussian administrative officer
• Georg Alexander von Hippel (1806–1895), royal Prussian major general
• Jochen Hippel (* 1971), German musician
• Peter von Hippel , American biochemist
• Robert von Hippel (1866–1951), German lawyer
• Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (1741–1796), German statesman, writer and social critic
• Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Younger (1775–1843), German statesman; Author of the appeal "To my people"
• William von Hippel (* 1963), American-Australian social psychologist and university professor
• Wolfgang von Hippel (* 1936), German historian

See also

• Hippel-Lindau disease , von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (VHL), a rare hereditary tumor disease
• Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Bahlow : German name dictionary. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning. License issue. Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4 .