Strickler
Strickler is a Swiss family name .
Origin and meaning
The name Strickler goes back to the dromonym for on the rope or line . This was synonymous with a straight path or section of the road in the form of a line . This relates specifically to a path between the places Wädenswil and Einsiedeln . Today, in the place of the original ancestors of the Strickler family, there is Saturdayern . The Strickler family name was first mentioned in a document in 1384.
distribution
Until the 16th century , the spread of the name was limited to the area around today's communities of Richterswil , Saturdayern , Hütten , Schönenberg and Hirzel . In the course of the persecution of the Anabaptists in Switzerland and the acceptance of the then Elector Palatinate Karl Ludwig I , in order to compensate for the losses of the Thirty Years' War and to promote the reconstruction, a. a. also some Strickler to the Palatinate .
Name bearer
- Albert Strickler (1887–1963), Swiss hydraulic engineer and co-author of the Gauckler-Manning-Strickler flow formula (GMS formula)
- Alois Strickler (1924–2019), Swiss mountaineer
- Cyrus W. Strickler (1907–1998), American professor of medicine and college football coach
- Daniel B. Strickler (1897–1992), American politician
- Johannes Strickler (1835–1910), state archivist in the canton of Zurich and author
- René Strickler (* 1948), Swiss trainer
- René Guillermo Strickler Zender (* 1962), Argentine actor
- Salesia Strickler (1834–1898), Swiss religious and superior general
places
- Strickler , Arkansas , USA , an unincorporated area .
literature
- Kurt Wild: Richterswil in the mirror of its field names , Richterswil 1995, Verlag Druckerei AG
- Kurt Wild: Alt-Richterswil , Richterswil 1992, Verlag Buchdruckerei AG
- Peter Ziegler: Hütten , Wädenswil 1987, Verlag Stutz + Co. AG
- Heinrich Peter: From the local history of Richterswil , Richterswil, Verlag Buchdruckerei AG
- Walter Hoehn-Ochsner: From the life and work of the schoolmaster Jakob Strickler , Richterswil, book and art print AG
Individual evidence
- ↑ Introduction to open channel: Gerhard H. Jirka: Introduction to hydrodynamics. KIT Scientific Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86644-158-3 , p. 212 ( limited preview in Google book search).