Grätz
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Graetz or Grätz is a German surname
and place name and can refer to:
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Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
and place name and can refer to:
People:
- Heinrich GraetzHeinrich GraetzHeinrich Graetz was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective....
(1817–1891), Jewish historian - Leo GraetzLeo GraetzLeo Graetz was a German physicist. He was born in Wrocław , Poland as the son of the historian Heinrich Graetz.Graetz was one of the first to investigate the propagation of electromagnetic energy...
(1856–1941), German physicist and son of Heinrich Graetz - Gidon GraetzGidon GraetzGidon Graetz is a Swiss-Israeli sculptor. He studied in the mid-1950s at Accademia delle Belle Arti in Firenze and at Les Beaux-Arts in Paris....
, Swiss-Israeli sculptor - Robert GraetzRobert GraetzRobert S. Graetz is a Lutheran clergyman who, as the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, openly supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a landmark event of the U.S. civil rights movement.-Role in civil rights movement:...
, Lutheran pastor and civil rights leader - Bibi Graetz, owner and winemaker of Toscana wine producer Azienda Agricola TestamattaAzienda Agricola TestamattaAzienda Agricola Testamatta is an Italian winery run by Bibi Graetz, a winemaker of artist background from Italian/Norwegian heritage, who produces several Tuscan wines from vineyards located in the hills of Fiesole that overlook the city of Florence. Graetz has been described as a "cool winemaker"...
, son of Gidon Graetz - Windisch-GraetzWindisch-GraetzThe House of Windisch-Graetz, also spelled Windisch-Grätz, was a princely family in the Austrian Empire, serving the Habsburg dynasty.The name derives from the town of Windischgrätz in the Duchy of Styria, which is today Slovenj Gradec in the Carinthia region of Slovenia...
, princely family of the Holy Roman Empire - Josh Graetz, Great Australian Basketball Player, North Adelaide Rockets Basketball Club
Places:
- Grätz, the German name of Grodzisk WielkopolskiGrodzisk WielkopolskiGrodzisk Wielkopolski is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship , with a population of 13,703 . It is south-west of Poznań, the voivodeship capital. It is the seat of Grodzisk Wielkopolski County, and also of the smaller administrative district called Gmina Grodzisk Wielkopolski...
, Poland - Kreis GrätzKreis GrätzPowiat grodziski may refer to either of two counties in Poland:*Grodzisk Wielkopolski County, in Greater Poland Voivodeship *Grodzisk Mazowiecki County, in Masovian Voivodeship...
, one of several Kreise (counties) in the Prussian Province of Posen - Windischgrätz, the German name of Slovenj GradecSlovenj GradecSlovenj Gradec is a town and a municipality in northern Slovenia. It is part of the historic Lower Styria region, since 2005 it belongs to the NUTS-3 statistical region of Carinthia...
, Slovenia
Other:
- Graetz number, a dimensionless number that characterizes laminar flow in a conduit in fluid dynamics
- Graetz AGGraetz AGGraetz AG was a German manufacturer of petrol lamps. In 1899 the company began to produce radio sets at its plant in Treptow, Berlin. The company lent its name to an electrical circuit called the diode bridge, which is better known as the full-wave bridge rectifier...
, German manufacturer of petrol lamps