Artist (family name)
Künstler is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
The name artist represents a form of the Middle High German word kunster or kunstener , which is adapted to New High German ; this does not mean an artist in today's sense, but a particularly intelligent or skillful person or a skilled worker. It is a nickname .
distribution
The name occurs above average in Germany, below average in Austria, and almost not at all in Switzerland. It is widespread throughout Germany, with a slight concentration in the southwest.
The variants Kuenstler and Kunstler rarely occur in Germany , they are more common in the United States . One possible reason for this is that the English language does not use umlauts and that is why the names of immigrants were partly converted into other spellings.
variants
Well-known namesake
- Franz Künstler (politician) (1888–1942), German trade unionist, politician and resistance fighter
- Franz artist (soldier) (1900–2008), Austrian war veteran
- Georg Künstler (1864–1957), German Protestant theologian
- Kai artist (* 1969), German actor
- Karl Künstler (SS member) (1901–1945?), German SS Obersturmbannführer
- Karl Künstler (actor) (* 1957), Austrian actor
- Max Künstler (1924–2015), German CDU politician
- Mechtild artist (* 1961), German badminton player, see Mechtild Hagemann
- Mort artist (* 1931), American illustrator
- Thomas Künstler (* 1960), German badminton player
- Torsten Künstler (* 1969), German film director
- Werner Künstler , German ice hockey player
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosa and Volker Kolkheim: Duden - Lexicon of family names. Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus AG, Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-411-73111-4 , p. 371
- ↑ Statistics query on verwandt.ch
- ↑ Statistics query on Geogen
- ↑ Statistics query on HowManyOfMe.com