People with the surname Freytag (''Friday'' in German) include:
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Adam Freytag (1608–50), Polish mathematician and military engineer
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Arny Freytag
Arny Freytag (born April 12, 1950) is an American photographer who specializes in glamour photography. He began working for ''Playboy'' magazine in 1976 and at one time was one of only two photographers who produced the ''Playboy'' centerfold pho ...
, American photographer
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag (19 September 1788 – 16 November 1861) was a German philologist.
Background
Freytag was born in Lüneburg. He studied philology and theology at the University of Göttingen, where from 1811 to 1813 he worke ...
(1788-1861), German philologist
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Gustav Freytag
Gustav Freytag (; 13 July 1816 – 30 April 1895) was a German novelist and playwright.
Life
Freytag was born in Kreuzburg (Kluczbork) in Silesia. After attending the school at Oels (Oleśnica), he studied philology at the universities of ...
(1816-1895), German dramatist
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Freytag's pyramid
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Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven (1914-2007), Baltic German general
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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self ...
(1874-1927), Dada-artist
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Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven (1899-1944), Baltic German member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler
See also
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Freitag
German-language surnames
Surnames from nicknames
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