Seeger Explained

Seeger
Language origin:	Middle English
Variant:	Seagar

Seeger is the surname of various people.

Etymology

Seeger is one of the variant forms of Seagar, a surname of Middle English origin based on the given name Segar, which was formed from Old English sæ ("sea") and gar ("spear").^[1]

Seeger family of musicians

• Charles Louis Seeger, Sr. (1860–1943), American businessman
  • Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. (1886–1979), American musicologist, composer, and teacher

(i) Constance Edson Seeger, violinist; first wife of Charles; three children

• Charles Seeger III, (1912–2002) astronomer

• John Seeger, (1914–2010), high school principal and co-founder of Camp Killooleet, a summer camp in Vermont

• Pete Seeger (1919–2014), one of the preeminent American folk and protest singers of the 20th century

Toshi Seeger (1922–2013), filmmaker and environmental activist, wife of Pete Seeger; 4 children

• Peter Seeger (1944–1945), died while Pete was deployed overseas^[2]

• Daniel Seeger^[3]

• Mika Seeger^[3] American ceramic artist; daughter of Pete and Toshi Seeger

• Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (b. 1972), a contemporary American folk musician; son of Mika

• Tinya Seeger^[3]

(ii) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist; second wife of Charles; 4 children

• Mike Seeger (1933–2009), American folk musician and folklorist

• Chris Arley Seeger (born 1961), technologist, broadcast engineer, mixer-editor; married to Laura Vaccaro Seeger, a children's book author-illustrator

• Peggy Seeger (born 1935), American folk singer and songwriter; wife of Scottish folk singer Ewan MacColl and stepmother of singer Kirsty MacColl

• Neil MacColl, guitarist for David Gray

• Jamie MacColl, guitarist in Bombay Bicycle Club and Neil MacColl's son

• Barbara Seeger, appeared on Animal Folk Songs for Children (1992) with Mike Seeger and others

• Penny Seeger, married John Cohen
  • Alan Seeger (1888–1916), American poet; brother of Charles
  • Elizabeth Seeger (1889–1973), teacher at Dalton School and author; sister of Charles and Alan

Others

• Al Seeger (b. 1980), American boxer
• Andreas Seeger, German mathematician
• Britta Seeger (b. 1969), German business executive
• Charles M. Seeger (b. 1948), American author and attorney
• Christopher A. Seeger (b. 1960), American attorney
• Daniel Seeger (b. 1934), defendant in a case on conscription of pacifists
• Frank Seeger (b. 1972), German sports shooter
• Fritz Seeger (b. 1912), Swiss sprinter
• Hal Seeger (1917–2005), American animated cartoon producer and director
• Harald Seeger (1922–2015), German footballer and manager
• Helmut Seeger (b. 1932), German sports shooter
• Hermann Seeger (1857–1945), German painter
• Louis Seeger (1798–1865), German equestrian
• Matthew Seeger (b. 1957), American professor and university dean
• Melanie Seeger (b. 1977), German race walker
• Petra Seeger, German documentary film director and producer
• Raymond Seeger (1906–1992), American physicist
• Ruth Taubert Seeger (1924–2014), American athlete and coach
• Stanley J. Seeger (1930–2011), American art collector
• Stefan Seeger (born 1962), German chemist and professor
• Steven C. Seeger (b. 1971), American judge

Legal cases

"Seeger" may also reference either of two legal cases involving the individuals below:

• United States v. Seeger, regarding Daniel Seeger's conscription
• Seeger v. United States, regarding Pete Seeger's refusal to testify in front of the HUAC

Schools

• Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School in West Lebanon, Indiana
• Elizabeth Seeger School in Greenwich Village, established in 1971 by five teachers from Dalton School

See also

• Seger
• Seager
• Segger (surname)

Object names

• Seeger ring, alternative name for a circlip
• The closest modern named object that corresponds to a seaspear is a harpoon.

Notes and References

1. Hanks, Patrick & Hodges, Flavia (1988) The Oxford Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press; p. 556
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156632394/peter-%C5%8Dta-seeger
3. Bart Barnes, "Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94", The Washington Post, January 28, 2014