Schwarzschild () is a
German
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surname
[It is likely to be misspelled and/or mispronounced by native English speakers, particularly involving failure to grasp that
* German ''sch'' (at the beginning of ''each'' of the two syllables) is pronounced as English ''sh'',
* German ''w'' is pronounced as English ''v'', and
* German ''z'' is pronounced as English ''ts''.
Some English speakers omit the ''s'' that begins the second syllable and pronounce '']child
A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger ...
'' and ''childe
In the Middle Ages, a childe or child (from ang, Cild "Young Lord") was a nobleman's son who had not yet attained knighthood or had not yet won his spurs. As a rank in chivalry it was used as a title, e.g. Child Horn in ''King Horn'', whilst a ma ...
'' (instead of approximating either English ''shield
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'' or German ). meaning "black sign" or "black shield".
Those bearing the name include:
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Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.
Schwarzschild provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-r ...
(1873–1916), physicist and astronomer
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Steven Schwarzschild
Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924–1989) was a rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and editor.
Biography
Schwarzschild was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and grew up in Berlin. He escaped to the United States with his family in 1939.
He receive ...
(1924–1989), philosopher and rabbi
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Henry Schwarzschild (1926–1996), civil rights activist
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Martin Schwarzschild
Martin Schwarzschild (May 31, 1912 – April 10, 1997) was a German-American astrophysicist.
Biography
Schwarzschild was born in Potsdam into a distinguished German Jewish academic family. His father was the physicist Karl Schwarzschild and ...
(1912–1997), astronomer
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Shimon Schwarzschild (1925–), environmental activist
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Luise Hercus
Luise Anna Hercus , , (16 January 1926 – 15 April 2018) was a German-born linguist who lived in Australia from 1954. After significant early work on Middle Indo-Aryan dialects (Prakrits) she had specialised in Australian Aboriginal languages si ...
(née Schwarzschild) (1926–), linguist
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Leopold_Schwarzschild
Leopold Schwarzschild (8 December 1891, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany – 2 October 1950, in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy) was a German author.
Writings
His book ''World in Trance'' (1943) is a history of international relations during the ...
(Leopold Schwarzschild), author and philosopher
See also
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Rothschild
Rothschild () is a name derived from the German ''zum rothen Schild'' (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "with the red sign", in reference to the houses where these family members lived or had lived. At the time, houses were designated by signs ...
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Jewish surnames
Yiddish-language surnames