Kirchner Explained

Kirchner is an occupational surname of German origin, derived from the Middle High German word German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500);: kirchenaere ('sexton', 'priest', 'church assistant' or 'church property administrator').^[1] Notable people with the name include:

Arts

• Alfred Kirchner (born 1937), German actor, theatre director, opera director, theatre manager
• Athanasius Kircher, a/k/a Athanasius Kirchner (1602–1680), German Jesuit scholar and polymath
• Claude Kirchner (1916–1993), American television announcer and children's personality
• Emma Kirchner (1830–1909), German photographer who lived and worked in the Netherlands.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist artist
• Ignaz Kirchner (1946–2018), German actor
• Jaime Lee Kirchner (1981), American actress
• Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), American composer
• Marilena Kirchner (1997), German volksmusik and schlager singer
• Paul Kirchner (1952), American illustrator and comic-book author
• Raphael Kirchner (1876–1917), Austrian artist and illustrator
• Shabier Kirchner (born 1987/1988), Antiguan cinematographer and filmmaker
• Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903), German composer
• Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), German violist and composer

Politics

• Alicia Kirchner (born 1946), Argentine politician
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953), Argentine politician, former President and Vice-President of Argentina
• Máximo Kirchner (born 1977), Argentine politician
• Néstor Kirchner (1950–2010), former President of Argentina
• Russ Kirchner Jr., American businessman
• William G. Kirchner (1916–1999), American politician and businessman

Sports

• Albert Edward Lester "Alby" Kirchner (1888–1942), Australian rules footballer
• Andreas Kirchner (1953–2010), German hammer thrower and bob pusher
• H. E. Kirchner (1937–1993), American basketball player
• Mark Kirchner (1970), German biathlete
• Michael Kirchner or Corporal Kirchner (1957–2021), American professional wrestler
• Zane Kirchner (1984), South African rugby player

Other

• 16441 Kirchner, asteroid discovered in 1989
• Friedrich Kirchner (1885–1960), German General during the Second World War
• James Kirchner, University of California professor
• Johanna Kirchner (1889–1944), anti-Nazi dissident
• Kirchner's viscacha rat, species of rodents in the family Octodontidae described in 2014, one of two species in the genus Tympanoctomys
• Kirchner Cultural Centre, cultural centre located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Kirchneriella, genus of green algae in the family Selenastraceae^[2]
• Kirchner Peak, isolated peak in Antarctica
• Kirchnerism, Argentine political movement
• Kirchner v. Venus (1859), English Law case precedent that defined freight as "the reward payable to the carrier of for the safe carriage and delivery of goods"
• Oskar von Kirchner (1851–1925), German botanist and agronomist

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kirchner Name Meaning & Kirchner Family History at Ancestry.com. www.ancestry.com. 15 January 2019.
2. See the NCBI webpage on Kirchneriella. Data extracted from the Web site: NCBI taxonomy resources . . 2020-12-29.