Auerbach
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Auerbach, a German language
generic toponym coming from Aue + Bach, meaning "floodmeadow brook", can refer to:
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
generic toponym coming from Aue + Bach, meaning "floodmeadow brook", can refer to:
In Germany
- Auerbach, Erzgebirgskreis, in the Erzgebirgskreis district, Saxony
- Auerbach (Albtal), a part of Karlsbad in the Karlsruhe district
- Auerbach (Allgäu), a part of Stetten, BavariaStetten, BavariaStetten is a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany....
in the Unterallgäu district - Auerbach (Bauland), a part of Elztal in the Neckar-Odenwald district
- Auerbach (Bensheim), a part of BensheimBensheimBensheim is a town in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany. Bensheim lies on the Bergstraße and at the edge of the Odenwald mountains while at the same time having an open view over the Rhine plain...
in the Bergstraße district - Auerbach (Horgau)Auerbach (Horgau)Auerbach is a village in the municipality Horgau near Augsburg in the district of Augsburg, in Swabia - Bavaria, southern Germany.- External links : - -...
, a part of Horgau in the Augsburg district - Auerbach in der OberpfalzAuerbach in der OberpfalzAuerbach in der Oberpfalz is a town in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria, Germany. It is located 45 km NE of Nuremberg. In Michelfeld there was a Benedictine monastery which is now a nursing home.-Districts:*Degelsdorf*Gunzendorf*Michelfeld...
, in the Amberg-Sulzbach district - Auerbach, Lower BavariaAuerbach, Lower BavariaAuerbach is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf in Bavaria in Germany....
, in the Deggendorf district - Auerbach (Vogtland)Auerbach (Vogtland)Auerbach is a town in the Vogtlandkreis. It is deemed to be the centre of the east Vogtland in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. The city has a textile manufacturer and some factories including the famous machine industry....
, in the Vogtlandkreis district, Saxony
Persons named Auerbach
- Alan Auerbach (born 1983), Irish-born entrepreneur
- Ann Auerbach (born 1960), Irish-born Civil Servant
- Arnold M. AuerbachArnold M. AuerbachArnold M. Auerbach was an American comedy writer, especially for radio, television and newspapers. Auerbach wrote radio and television scripts for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Fred Allen, Frank Sinatra and Phil Silvers, among others...
(1912–1998), American screenwriter - Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 18th century
- Ben AuerbachBen AuerbachBenjamin "Ben" Auerbach was an early American professional basketball player in the American Basketball League. He had a standout college career for New York University, and, despite the shared surname, Ben Auerbach is not related to the Hall of Fame coach Red Auerbach.-College:Auerbach grew up in...
(1919–1993), American professional basketball player - Berthold AuerbachBerthold AuerbachBerthold Auerbach was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German “tendency novel,” in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.-Biography:Moses Baruch Auerbach was born in Nordstetten in the Kingdom...
(1812–1882), German-Jewish writer - Charlotte AuerbachCharlotte AuerbachCharlotte Auerbach FRSE FRS was a German zoologist and geneticist.Born in Germany, she fled to Scotland because of anti-Semitism. She became well known after 1942 when she, with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson, discovered that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies...
(1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist - Dan AuerbachDan AuerbachDaniel Quine Auerbach is an American musician. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known as the guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. He is married to Stephanie Gonis, with whom he has a daughter, Sadie Little Auerbach, born in 2008.- Childhood and early...
(born 1956), American Director of Photography - Dan AuerbachDan AuerbachDaniel Quine Auerbach is an American musician. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known as the guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. He is married to Stephanie Gonis, with whom he has a daughter, Sadie Little Auerbach, born in 2008.- Childhood and early...
(born 1979), American-Jewish guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys - David Auerbach (born 1986), Irish-born food scientist
- Ellen AuerbachEllen AuerbachEllen Auerbach was a German-born American photographer who is best remembered for her innovative artwork for the Ringl & Pit studio in Berlin during the Weimar Republic.-External links:...
(1906–2004), German-born American photographer - Erich Auerbach (photographer)Erich Auerbach (photographer)Erich Auerbach was a foremost Czech journalist photographer and the official photographer of the Czechoslovak government in exile during the second world war...
(1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer - Erich AuerbachErich AuerbachErich Auerbach was a philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times.-Biography:Auerbach, who was Jewish, was born in...
(1892–1957), German-Jewish philologist - Frank AuerbachFrank AuerbachFrank Helmut Auerbach is a painter born in Germany although he has been a naturalised British citizen since 1947.-Biography:Auerbach was born in Berlin, the son of Max Auerbach, a patent lawyer, and Charlotte Nora Burchardt, who had trained as an artist...
(born 1931), German-born British painter - Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
- Helen Auerbach (born 1990), Irish-born Computer scientist and vocalist for Garden Blue
- Herman AuerbachHerman AuerbachHerman Auerbach was a Polish mathematician and member of the Lwów School of Mathematics.Auerbach was professor at Lwów University. During the Second World War because of his Jewish descent he was imprisoned by the Germans in the Lwów ghetto. In 1942 he was murdered at Bełżec extermination...
(1901–1942), Polish mathematician - Larry AuerbachLarry AuerbachLarry Auerbach is an American television director.Auerbach's career as a director coincided with the early years of television and the organization of the fledgling medium's directors during the first years after the Second World War.A director for half a century, he was a member of the Directors...
(born 1923), iconic American television director - Leopold AuerbachLeopold AuerbachLeopold Auerbach was a German anatomist and neuropathologist born in Breslau.Auerbach studied Medicine at the University of Breslau, the University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig. He became a doctor in 1850...
(1828–1897), German anatomist (see Auerbach's plexus below) - Lera AuerbachLera AuerbachLera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...
(born 1973), Russian composer, pianist and poet. - Meir Auerbach, first AshkenaziAshkenazi JewsAshkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north. Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for this region and thus for Germany...
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem - Oscar AuerbachOscar AuerbachDr. Oscar Auerbach was a pathologist famous for being one of the first to link cigarette smoking with cancer.- Early life :...
(1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist - Red AuerbachRed AuerbachArnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was an American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Boston Celtics. After he retired from coaching, he served as president and front office executive of the Celtics until his death...
(1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School - Rick AuerbachRick AuerbachFrederick "Rick" Steven Auerbach was a shortstop in Major League Baseball. He played from - with the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, and Seattle Mariners...
(born 1950), American baseball player - Shlomo Zalman AuerbachShlomo Zalman AuerbachShlomo Zalman Auerbach , was a renowned Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel...
, famous Jewish Rabbi from Jerusalem - Stevanne AuerbachStevanne AuerbachStevanne Auerbach also known as Dr. Toy, is an American educator, child development expert, writer and toyologist. She is known for being a consummate gadfly of the toy industry. After more than thirty years in the field of toys, she was named a Wonder Woman of Toys by Playthings Magazine...
(born 1938), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer - Yuri AverbakhYuri AverbakhYuri Lvovich Averbakh is a Soviet and Russian chess player and author. He is currently the oldest living chess grandmaster.-Life and career:...
(born 1922), Russian chess grandmaster
Other
- Auerbach CastleAuerbach CastleAuerbach Castle is one of several dramatic fortresses along the Bergstrasse in southern Hesse, Germany.The castle was originally built by King Charlemagne, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and then re-built by Count Diether IV of the Katzenelnbogen dynasty in the second quarter of the 13th century...
, one of several dramatic castles along the Bergstraße in southern Hesse, Germany - Auerbachs KellerAuerbachs KellerAuerbachs Keller is the best known and second oldest restaurant in Leipzig. It was described in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust I, as the first place Mephistopheles takes Faust on their travels....
, a historic restaurant in Leipzig, made famous by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust - Auerbach's plexusAuerbach's plexusA part of the enteric nervous system, Auerbach's plexus , exists between the longitudinal and circular layers of muscularis externa in the gastrointestinal tract and provides motor innervation to both layers of the mucosa, having both parasympathetic and sympathetic input, whereas Meissner's plexus...
, a plexus of sympathetic nerve fibers