PROFILPELAJAR.COM

Günzburg is a surname of Swabian origin. Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Gensburg, Ginsburgh, Ginzberg, Ginzborg, and Ginzburg are variants of the surname.

History

The Günzburg (Cyrillic: Гинзбург Ginzburg, Гинцбург Gintsburg; Yiddish: גינזבורג Ginzburg, גינצבורג Gintsburg) 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".^[1]

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.^[2] 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 (from Old German: Hammaburg, lit. "castle above the river bend").^[3] 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".^[4]

Gunzburg, Günzburg

Akiva Günzburg (d. 1597), German poet and rabbi
Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg (c. 1695-1785), rabbi
Baron Joseph Günzburg, (1812–1878) Russian-Jewish banker, philanthropist and communal leader
Baron Horace Günzburg, (1833–1909) Russian-Jewish banker, philanthropist and communal leader
Baron David Günzburg, (1857–1910) Russian orientalist and Jewish communal leader
Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, (1904–1981) socialite, editor, actor, producer
Mordecai Aaron Günzburg (1795–1846), writer
Nico Gunzburg, (1882–1984) Belgian lawyer and criminologist
Isidor Gunsberg, (1854–1930), Hungarian-born British challenger for the World Chess Championship
Karl Siegfried Günsburg (1784–1860), German-Jewish writer and preacher
Milton Gunzburg, (1910–1991) American screenwriter and inventor

Gunzbourg

Baron Philippe de Gunzbourg (1904–1986). French aristocrat and Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War.

Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), Beat poet
Asher Hirsch Ginsberg ("Achad Ha'am"; 1856–1927), Zionist writer and philosopher
Benjamin Ginsberg (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- Benjamin Ginsberg (businessman) (died 1944), South African businessman
- Benjamin Ginsberg (lawyer) (born circa 1952), American attorney and lobbyist
- Benjamin Ginsberg (political scientist) (born 1947), American political scientist
Brian Ginsberg (born 1966), American gymnast, two-time US junior national gymnastics champion
Inge Ginsberg (1922–2021), Swiss lyricist, journalist and heavy metal singer
Morris Ginsberg (1889–1970), British sociologist
Harold Louis Ginsberg (1903–1990), Jewish bible scholar
Naomi Ginsberg (born 1979), Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Ginsburg

Benson Ginsburg (1918–2016), American behavior geneticist
Chad I Ginsburg (born 1972), lead guitarist and mixer/producer of the modern rock band CKY
Renee Ginsburg Rabinowitz (1934-2024), Belgian-American-Israeli psychologist and lawyer.
Charles Ginsburg (1920–1992), leader of a research team that developed one of the first practical videotape recorders
Charlotte Lucy Ginsburg, best known as Charlotte Gainsbourg (born 1971), English-French actress and singer-songwriter, daughter of Serge Gainsbourg
Christian David Ginsburg (1831–1914), Polish-UK Hebrew language scholar
Douglas H. Ginsburg (born 1946), Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Helen Lachs Ginsburg (1929–2020), American economist
Isaac Ginsburg (1886–1975) Lithuanian-born American ichthyologist
James Steven Ginsburg (born 1965), American classical music producer
Madeleine Ginsburg (1928–2020), British dress historian
Martin D. Ginsburg (1932–2010), American lawyer
Ophira Ginsburg, Canadian oncologist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), American jurist and United States Supreme Court justice
Saul Moiseyevich Ginsburg (1866–1940), Russian author and historian
Serge Gainsbourg, né Lucien Ginsburg, (1928–1991) French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director
Seymour Ginsburg (1927–2004), computer science pioneer of automata, formal language, and database theories
Shiphra Ginsburg, Canadian physician-scientist
William H. Ginsburg (1943–2013), American lawyer

Ginzburg

Alexander Ginzburg, best known as Alexander Galich (1918–1977), Soviet poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter and dissident
Alexander Ginzburg (1936–2002), Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident
Boni Ginzburg (born 1964), Israeli footballer
Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939), historian and pioneer of microhistory, son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg
Grigory Ginzburg (1904–1961), Jewish-born Russian pianist
Irena Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz, née Ginzburg (1917 — 2015), Polish doctor, neurologist
Leo Ginzburg (1901–1979), Russian conductor and pianist of Polish origin
Leone Ginzburg (1909–1944), Russian-born Italian Jewish writer and anti-fascist
Lev R. Ginzburg (born 1945), theoretical ecologist
Lidiya Ginzburg (1902–1990), major Soviet literary critic and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad
Mark Ginzburg (born 1956), American and Ukrainian businessman and public figure
Moisei Ginzburg (1892–1946), Belarus-born Russian architect
Natalia Ginzburg (born Levi) (1916—1991), Italian author
Nora Ginzburg (born 1949), Argentine lawyer and politician
Oren Ginzburg, French-Israeli writer and cartoonist
Ralph Ginzburg (1929–2006), American publisher of Eros Magazine
Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg (died 1943), Soviet armored vehicles designer
Victor Ginzburg (born 1957), American mathematician, born in Russia
Viktor Ginzburg (1962), Russian-American mathematician
Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009), Russian physicist and laureate of the Nobel Prize of Physics
Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904–1977), Russian historian and writer, mother of Vasily Aksyonov

Other spellings

Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg (born 1971), English-French actress and singer-songwriter.
Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991), French singer-songwriter born Lucien Ginsburg.

Gensburg

Robert Gensburg, American attorney

Ginsborg

Paul Ginsborg (1945–2022), British historian
Ralf Ginsborg (1927–2006), Danish footballer

Ginsbourg

Mark Ginsbourg, birth name of Mark Gayn (1902–1981), Russian-born American and Canadian left-wing journalist

Ginsburgh

Stéphane Ginsburgh (born 1969), Belgian pianist
Victor Ginsburgh (born 1939), Belgian economist
Yitzchak Ginsburgh (born 1944), Israeli rabbi

Gintsburg

Aleksandr Gintsburg (1907–1972), Soviet cameraman and film director
Alexander Gintsburg (born 1951), Soviet and Russian microbiologist

Ginzberg

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg (1873–1953), one of the outstanding Talmud scholars of the twentieth century.

Ginzburg

Esti Ginzburg (born 1990), Israeli model
Iser Ginzburg (1872–1947), Lithuanian-American physician and journalist

Ginsparg

Paul Ginsparg (born 1955), American theoretical physicist and creator of the ArXiv e-print archive

References

^ Rabbi Jair Chajim Bacharach und Seine Ahnen, p. 45, Treves, 1894) proves that "Gunz" and "Gaunz" are simply variants of "Günzburg.
^ Maggid, "Toledot Mishpechoth Gintzburg," p. 239, St. Petersburg, 1899.
^ Duden, Geographische Namen in Deutschland. Mannheim, 1999. p. 134.
^ Duden, Geographische Namen in Deutschland. Mannheim, 1999. p. 130.

Eisenstadt-Wiener, Da‘at (Czech: Qedošim), pp. 198–212, St. Petersburg, 1897–98;
Belinsohn, Shillume Emune Yisrael, Odessa, 1898;
Belinsohn, Ein Wort über die Familie Guenzburg, St. Petersburg, 1858. The chief source is Maggid's work, quoted above.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Günzburg". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

This page lists people with the surname Günzburg.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.