Cassirer is a surname of Yiddish origin (קאַסירער ''kasirer'', which means ''Cashier''; German: Kassierer). Notable people with the surname include:
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Wilfred Cass, born ''Wolfgang Cassirer'' (1924–2022), German-Jewish founder of Cass Sculpture Foundation
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Bruno Cassirer
Bruno Cassirer (12 December 1872 – 29 October 1941Barbara Falk: ''No Other Home: an Anglo-Jewish family in Australia 1833–1987'', Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1988.) was a publisher and gallery owner in Berlin who had a considerable influence on ...
(1872–1941), German-Jewish publisher and gallery owner in Berlin
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Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( , ; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science.
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(1874–1945), German-Jewish philosopher
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Fritz Cassirer
Friedrich (Fritz) Leopold Cassirer, (29 March 1871 – 26 November 1926) was a German conductor. He was one of the early proponents of the music of Frederick Delius, and conducted the premiere of Delius's first opera.
Biography
Cassirer was born ...
(1871–1926), German-Jewish conductor
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Heinz Cassirer (1903–1979), German-German philosopher
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Julius Cassirer
Julius Cassirer (February 2, 1841, in Schwientochlowitz – June 18, 1924, in Berlin) was a German Jewish industrialist and art collector and principal shareholder of Kabelwerke Dr. Cassirer & Co. in Berlin. An artwork from his collection is the ...
(1841–1924), German-Jewish industrialist and art collector
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Paul Cassirer
Paul Cassirer (21 February 1871, in Görlitz – 7 January 1926, in Berlin) was a German art dealer and editor who played a significant role in the promotion of the work of artists of the Berlin Secession and of French Impressionists and Post-Im ...
(1871–1926), German-Jewish art dealer and editor
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Richard Cassirer (1868–1925), German-Jewish neurologist
See also
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Jerome P. Kassirer (born 1932), American nephrologist
External links
History of the Cassirer family
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Jewish surnames
Occupational surnames