Osiander
Osiander is an old German family name .
Origin and meaning
The family name Osiander comes from southern Germany and is mainly found in Franconia and Württemberg . The name has been documented in writing since 1440.
The widespread opinion that the name is a "humanist name" and represents a Graecization of "Hosemann" is erroneous.
Above all , the Osiander family produced a large number of theologians , for example the Osiander family in the Württemberg Church provided over 30 deans in 1720 . Most famous is the German reformer and ancestor of the Osiander family, Andreas Osiander . In the 17th and 18th centuries there were also chancellors of the University of Tübingen , as well as important booksellers in the 18th and 19th centuries .
variants
- Ossiander
- Osyander
Well-known namesake
People:
- Andreas Osiander (1498–1552), theologian and reformer
- Andreas Osiander the Younger (1562–1617), German Protestant theologian, Württemberg court preacher
- Christian Friedrich Osiander (1789–1839), bookseller in Tübingen. The Osiander bookstore in Tübingen (founded in 1596) still bears his name today .
- Christian Nathanael von Osiander (1781–1855), German theologian
- Ernst Osiander (1829–1864), German orientalist
- Friedrich Benjamin Osiander (1759–1822), German physician and obstetrician
- Gottlieb Ulrich Osiander (1786–1827), German Protestant theologian
- Heinrich Friedrich Osiander (1782–1846), German economist
- Johann Osiander (theologian, 1564) (1564–1626), German Protestant theologian and superintendent
- Johann Osiander (theologian, 1657) (1657–1724), German Protestant theologian and statesman
- Johann Adam Osiander (theologian) (1622–1697), German Lutheran theologian
- Johann Adam Osiander (medic) (1659–1708), German medic
- Johann Adam Osiander (philologist) (1701–1756), German Protestant theologian and philologist
- Johann Eberhard Osiander (1750–1800), German Protestant theologian
- Johann Ernst Osiander (1792–1870), German Protestant theologian
- Johann Friedrich Osiander (1787–1855), German gynecologist
- Johann Rudolph Osiander (1689–1725), German Protestant theologian and philologist
- Johann Rudolf Osiander (1717–1801), German Protestant theologian
- Joseph Osiander (1589–1635), German Protestant theologian, abbot in Blaubeuren and superintendent in Balingen
- Lucas Osiander the Elder (1534–1604), German Protestant theologian, preacher and composer
- Lucas Osiander the Younger (1571–1638), German Protestant theologian and university professor
- Philipp Gottlieb Osiander (1803–1876), German politician and senior bailiff
- Renate Finke-Osiander (* 1926), German ambassador
- Sigismund Osiander (1630–1701), Protestant theologian, professor of mathematics at the University of Helmstedt
Companies:
- Osiandersche Buchhandlung , book retailing company in southern Germany based in Tübingen
literature
- Elias Lehmann: family tree of the Osiander family. A genealogical attempt . Herrmann, Königsberg 1890 ( digitized , digitized )
- Wolfgang Killinger: An Osiander Genealogy - The early Osiander. In Blätter für Franconian Family Studies , Volume 30, 2007, pp. 81ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ G. Lenkner: Name and origin Andreas Osiander. In: Württembergisch Franken Volume 46, year 1962, pp. 55–62