Günzburg (surname)
Günzburg is a surname of Swabian origin. Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Gensburg, Ginsburgh, Ginzberg, Ginzborg, and Ginzburg are variants of the surname.
History
The Günzburg family originated in the town of Günzburg, Bavaria. It is believed that the family went there from the city of Ulm, Württemberg, and that for this reason the best-known progenitor of the family and some of his immediate descendants, as well as certain others, called themselves "Ulma-Günzburg".It is also an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. When, early in the emancipation period, the
Jews of Russia and of Austria were ordered by their governments to adopt family names, it was natural that many of them should choose a name so respected and pleasing as that of Günzburg. There is on record a lawsuit instituted by Baer Günzburg of Grodno against a Jewish family of that city who had adopted the same name under the decree of 1804. The court sustained the right of Jewish families to adopt any name they chose, and the number of Günzburg families accordingly increased.
The name is composed of two German elements. Burg means "castle" or "citadel". This commonly was also used to describe a walled settlement or town, hence common usage in town names such as Hamburg. The river name Günz is ultimately derived from the Indo-European root *gheu-, meaning "to pour". Thus, Günzburg refers to a "fortified town by the river Günz".
Gunzburg, Günzburg
- Akiva Günzburg, German poet and rabbi
- Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg, rabbi
- Baron Joseph Günzburg, Russian-Jewish banker, philanthropist and communal leader
- Baron Horace Günzburg, Russian-Jewish banker, philanthropist and communal leader
- Baron David Günzburg, Russian orientalist and Jewish communal leader
- Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, socialite, editor, actor, producer
- Mordecai Aaron Günzburg, writer
- Nico Gunzburg, Belgian lawyer and criminologist
- Isidor Gunsberg,, Hungarian-born British challenger for the World Chess Championship
- Karl Siegfried Günsburg, German-Jewish writer and preacher
- Milton Gunzburg, American screenwriter and inventor
Gunzbourg
- Baron Philippe de Gunzbourg. French aristocrat and Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War.
Ginsberg
- Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet
- Asher Hirsch Ginsberg, Zionist writer and philosopher
- Benjamin Ginsberg, multiple people, including:
- *Benjamin Ginsberg , South African businessman
- *Benjamin Ginsberg , American attorney and lobbyist
- *Benjamin Ginsberg , American political scientist
- Brian Ginsberg, American gymnast, two-time US junior national gymnastics champion
- Inge Ginsberg, Swiss lyricist, journalist and heavy metal singer
- Jodie Ginsberg, American/British journalist
- Matthias Ginsberg, German politician
- Morris Ginsberg, British sociologist
- Harold Louis Ginsberg, Jewish bible scholar
- Naomi Ginsberg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Ginsburg
- Benson Ginsburg, American behavior geneticist
- Chad I Ginsburg, lead guitarist and mixer/producer of the modern rock band CKY
- Renee Ginsburg Rabinowitz , Belgian-American-Israeli psychologist and lawyer.
- Charles Ginsburg, leader of a research team that developed one of the first practical videotape recorders
- Charlotte Lucy Ginsburg, best known as Charlotte Gainsbourg, English-French actress and singer-songwriter, daughter of Serge Gainsbourg
- Christian David Ginsburg, Polish-UK Hebrew language scholar
- Douglas H. Ginsburg, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Helen Lachs Ginsburg, American economist
- Isaac Ginsburg Lithuanian-born American ichthyologist
- James Steven Ginsburg, American classical music producer
- Madeleine Ginsburg, British dress historian
- Martin D. Ginsburg, American lawyer
- Ophira Ginsburg, Canadian oncologist
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurist and United States Supreme Court justice
- Saul Moiseyevich Ginsburg, Russian author and historian
- Serge Gainsbourg, né Lucien Ginsburg, French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director
- Seymour Ginsburg, computer science pioneer of automata, formal language, and database theories
- Shiphra Ginsburg, Canadian physician-scientist
- William H. Ginsburg, American lawyer
Ginzburg
- Alexander Ginzburg, best known as Alexander Galich, Soviet poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter and dissident
- Alexander Ginzburg, Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident
- Boni Ginzburg, Israeli footballer
- Carlo Ginzburg, historian and pioneer of microhistory, son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg
- Grigory Ginzburg, Jewish-born Russian pianist
- Irena Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz, née Ginzburg, Polish doctor, neurologist
- Leo Ginzburg, Russian conductor and pianist of Polish origin
- Leone Ginzburg, Russian-born Italian Jewish writer and anti-fascist
- Lev R. Ginzburg, theoretical ecologist
- Lidiya Ginzburg, major Soviet literary critic and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad
- Mark Ginzburg, American and Ukrainian businessman and public figure
- Moisei Ginzburg, Belarus-born Russian architect
- Natalia Ginzburg , Italian author
- Nora Ginzburg, Argentine lawyer and politician
- Oren Ginzburg, French-Israeli writer and cartoonist
- Ralph Ginzburg, American publisher of Eros Magazine
- Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg, Soviet armored vehicles designer
- Victor Ginzburg, American mathematician, born in Russia
- Viktor Ginzburg, Russian-American mathematician
- Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and laureate of the Nobel Prize of Physics
- Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian historian and writer, mother of Vasily Aksyonov
Other spellings
Gainsbourg
- Charlotte Gainsbourg, English-French actress and singer-songwriter.
- Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter born Lucien Ginsburg.
Gensburg
- Robert Gensburg, American attorney
Ginsborg
- Paul Ginsborg, British historian
- Ralf Ginsborg, Danish footballer
Ginsbourg
- Mark Ginsbourg, birth name of Mark Gayn, Russian-born American and Canadian left-wing journalist
Ginsburgh
- Stéphane Ginsburgh, Belgian pianist
- Victor Ginsburgh, Belgian economist
- Yitzchak Ginsburgh, Israeli rabbi
Gintsburg
- Aleksandr Gintsburg, Soviet cameraman and film director
- Alexander Gintsburg, Soviet and Russian microbiologist
Ginzberg
- Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, one of the outstanding Talmud scholars of the twentieth century.
Ginzburg
- Esti Ginzburg, Israeli model
- Iser Ginzburg, Lithuanian-American physician and journalist
Ginsparg
- Paul Ginsparg, American theoretical physicist and creator of the ArXiv e-print archive