Auerbach 1260892 216667033 2008-06-02T17:53:03Z 99.237.53.218 '''Auerbach''' was originally a [[German language|German-language]] generic [[toponym]] coming from ''[[wiktionary:de:Aue|Aue]]''  + ''[[wiktionary:de:Bach|Bach]]'', meaning "floodmeadow brook", that is, "a [[stream|brook]] running through a [[flood-meadow]]". The name is used for many places and people. The slavicized version of the name '''Auerbach''' is '''Авербах''' ([[Cyrillic alphabet]]) = '''Averbakh''' ([[Latin alphabet]]), which [[transliteration|transliterates]] to the [[Hebrew alphabet]] as '''אוּרבּך'''. ==Places== ===In Austria=== *[[Auerbach, Upper Austria]], a municipality in [[Braunau am Inn (district)|Bezirk Braunau am Inn]] ===In Germany=== *[[Auerbach in der Oberpfalz]], in the [[Amberg-Sulzbach]] district *[[Auerbach (Vogtland)]], in the [[Vogtlandkreis]] district, Saxony *[[Auerbach, Stollberg]], in the [[Stollberg (district)|Stollberg]] district, Saxony *[[Auerbach, Lower Bavaria]], in the [[Deggendorf (district)|Deggendorf]] district *[[Auerbach (Albtal)]], a part of [[Karlsbad (Baden)]] in the [[Karlsruhe (district)|Karlsruhe]] district *[[Auerbach (Allgäu)]], a part of [[Stetten, Bavaria|Stetten]] in the [[Unterallgäu]] district *[[Auerbach (Horgau)]], a part of [[Horgau]] in the [[Augsburg (district)|Augsburg]] district *[[Auerbach (Bauland)]], a part of [[Elztal]] in the [[Neckar-Odenwald]] district *[[Auerbach (Bensheim)]], a part of [[Bensheim]] in the [[Bergstraße]] district ==Persons named Auerbach == *[[Alfred Auerbach]] (1873-1954), German [[actor]] and [[writer]]. *[[Arnold M. Auerbach]] (1912-1998), American screenwriter *[[Berthold Auerbach]] (1812-1882), German-Jewish writer. *[[Charlotte Auerbach]] (1899-1994), German-Jewish [[geneticist]]. *[[Dan Auerbach|Daniel "Dan" Auerbach]] (born 1979), American-Jewish guitarist and vocalist (see [[The Black Keys]]). *[[Ellen Auerbach]] (1906-2004), German-born American photographer. *[[Erich Auerbach]] (1892-1957), German-Jewish [[philologist]]. *[[Frank Auerbach]] (born 1931), German-born British painter. *[[Heinrich Auerbach]] (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482-1542), physician and senator of Leipzig. *[[Herman Auerbach]] (1901-1942), Polish mathematician. *[[Isaak Lewin Auerbach]] (1785-1853). *[[Isaac Levin Auerbach]] (born 1921), engineer and first president of the [[International Federation for Information Processing]] (IFIP) *[[Jakob Auerbach]] (1810-1887). *[[Larry Auerbach]] (born 1923), iconic American television director. *[[Leopold Auerbach]] (1828-1897), German anatomist (see also [[Auerbach's plexus]]). *[[Lera Auerbach]] (born 1973), Russian composer, pianist and poet. *[[Red Auerbach|Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach]] (1917-2006), [[Boston Celtics]] coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School. *[[Shlomo Zalman Auerbach]], famous [[Jew]]ish Rabbi from [[Jerusalem]]. *[[Stanley I. Auerbach]](1922-2004) Oak Ridge, TN.- scientist- a founder of the science of radio ecology and a champion of modern ecological sciences. *[[Stevanne Auerbach]] (born 1938), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, [[child development]] expert, and writer. *[[Yuri Averbakh]] (born 1922), Russian [[chess]] [[grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]. *[[Auerbach (Jewish family)]], a family of scholars in the 16th to 18th century. ==Other== *[[Auerbach Castle]], one of several dramatic castles along the [[Bergstraße]] in southern [[Hesse]], [[Germany]] *[[Auerbachs Keller]], a historic restaurant in [[Leipzig]], famous by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] ''[[Faust]]'' *[[Auerbach's plexus]], a plexus of sympathetic nerve fibers {{disambig}} [[Category:Jewish surnames]] [[Category:German surnames]] [[de:Auerbach]] [[eo:Auerbach]] [[fr:Auerbach]] [[it:Auerbach]] [[nl:Auerbach]] [[ja:アワーバック]] [[ru:Ауэрбах (значения)]] [[vo:Auerbach]]