Kurzweil is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Adele Kurzweil
Adele "Dele" Kurzweil (31 January 1925 – 9 September 1942) was an Austrian girl of Judaism, Jewish origin who was tracked down by Nazi Germany and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp at arrival. Her fate became widely known after suitcases ...
(1925–1942), Austrian Holocaust victim
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Allen Kurzweil
Allen Kurzweil (born December 16, 1960) is an American novelist, journalist, editor, and lecturer. He is the author of four works of fiction, most notably ''A Case of Curiosities'', as well as a memoir ''Whipping Boy''. He is also the co-inventor ...
(born 1960), American writer
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Arthur Kurzweil
Arthur Kurzweil (born 1951) is an American author, educator, editor, writer, publisher, and illusionist.
Kurzweil was born in New York City
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(born 1951), American genealogist, scholar of Judaism and writer
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Baruch Kurzweil
Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972) (Hebrew: ברוך קורצווייל) was a pioneer of Israeli literary criticism.
Biography
Kurzweil was born in Brtnice, Moravia (now Czechoslovakia) in 1907, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He studied at Solomon ...
(1907–1972), Israeli literary critic
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Edith Kurzweil Edith Kurzweil (born 1924 Vienna - died February 6, 2016 New York City) was an American writer, and editor of ''Partisan Review''. In 1995, she married William Phillips. She graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology. She taught at Rutgers University.
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(1925–2016), American writer and editor
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Jaroslav Kurzweil
Jaroslav Kurzweil (, 7 May 1926, Prague – 17 March 2022) was a Czech mathematician.
Biography
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he was a specialist in ordinary differential equations and defined the Henstock–Kurzweil integral in terms of Riema ...
(1926–2022), Czech mathematician
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Max Kurzweil
Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil (12 October 1867, Bisenz – 9 May 1916, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna in 1879.
Maximillian or Max Kurzweil studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna wit ...
(1867–1916), Austrian painter and printmaker
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Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and e ...
(born 1948), American inventor, author and futurist
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Kurzweil Music Systems
Kurzweil Music Systems is an American company that produces electronic musical instruments. It was founded in 1982 by Stevie Wonder (musician), Ray Kurzweil (innovator) and Bruce Cichowlas (software developer).
Kurzweil was a developer of rea ...
, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces electronic musical instruments
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Kurzweil Educational Systems
Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) is an American-based company that provides educational technology.
Kurzweil Education provides literacy solutions, tools and training for those with learning differences and challenges, ...
, company founded by Ray Kurzweil that produces reading and writing software
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German-language surnames
Jewish surnames