Graetz or Grätz is a German surname and place name and may refer to:
People
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Gidon Graetz
Gidon Graetz (born 1929, Tel AvivSeveral, Michael, (December 1998)Gidon Graetz Biographical Information/ref>) is a Swiss-Israeli sculptor. He studied in the mid-1950s at Accademia delle Belle Arti in Firenze and at Les Beaux-Arts in Paris.
His ...
(born 1929), Swiss-Israeli sculptor
** Bibi Graetz, owner and winemaker of Toscana wine producer
Azienda Agricola Testamatta, son of Gidon
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Heinrich Graetz
Heinrich Graetz (; 31 October 1817 – 7 September 1891) was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective.
Born Tzvi Hirsch Graetz to a butcher family in Xions (now Książ Wielkopo ...
(1817–1891), German Jewish historian
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Herbert Graetz (1893–1985), Australian Olympic rower
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Jean Graetz (1929-2020), American civil rights leader
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Joseph Graetz
Joseph Graetz (2 December 1760 – 17 July 1826) was a German composer, organist, and music educator.
Career
Graetz was born in Vohburg on the Danube. He received musical training at Rohr Abbey, near Abensberg, Bavaria, and went to school in Ingo ...
(1760–1826), German composer, organist, and educator
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Leo Graetz
Leo Graetz (26 September 1856 – 12 November 1941) was a German physicist. He was born in Breslau, Germany, and was the son of historian Heinrich Graetz.
Graetz was one of the first to investigate the propagation of electromagnetic energy. ...
(1856–1941), German physicist, son of Heinrich
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Paul Graetz
Paul Graetz (8 August 1889 – 16 February 1937) was a German actor and star of the Weimar cabaret.
Selected filmography
* '' The Peruvian'' (1919)
* ''The Princess of the Nile'' (1920)
* ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920)
* ''Mary Magdalene'' (19 ...
(1889–1937), German actor
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Robert Graetz
Robert Sylvester Graetz Jr. (May 16, 1928 – September 20, 2020) was a Lutheran clergyman who, as the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, openly supported the Montgomery bus boycott, a landmark event of the civil rights m ...
(1928–2020), American Lutheran pastor and civil rights leader
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Rudi Graetz (1907–1977), German esperantist
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Windisch-Graetz
The House of Windisch-Graetz, also spelled Windisch-Grätz, is an Austrian-Slovenian aristocratic family, descending from Windischgraz in Lower Styria (present-day Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia). The noble dynasty serving the House of Habsburg achieve ...
, princely family of the Holy Roman Empire
Places
* Grätz, the German name of
Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Grodzisk Wielkopolski (german: Grätz) is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship (Wielkopolskie), with a population of 13,703 (2006). It is south-west of Poznań, the voivodeship capital. It is the seat of Grodzisk Wielkopolski ...
, Poland
* Grätz, the German name of
Hradec nad Moravicí
Hradec nad Moravicí (; german: Grätz) is a town in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,400 inhabitants. The historic town centre with the castle complex is well preserved and is protected by law as ...
, Czech Republic
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Kreis Grätz, one of several ''Kreise'' (counties) in the Prussian Province of Posen
* Windischgrätz, the German name of
Slovenj Gradec
Slovenj Gradec (; german: Windischgrätz'', ''after about 1900 ''Windischgraz'') is a town in northern Slovenia. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Slovenj Gradec. It is part of the historical Styria region, and since 2005 it has belon ...
, Slovenia
Other
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Graetz number In fluid dynamics, the Graetz number (Gz) is a dimensionless number that characterizes laminar flow in a conduit. The number is defined as:
:\mathrm = \mathrm\, \mathrm
where
: ''DH'' is the diameter in round tubes or hydraulic diameter in a ...
, a dimensionless number that characterizes laminar flow in a conduit in fluid dynamics
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Graetz AG, German manufacturer of petrol lamps and radios
See also
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Gratz (disambiguation)
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