Lehmann
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Lehmann is a common Germanic surname derived from the German
word Lehen, meaning fiefdom
. Some Jewish Lehmann families state that the origin of their name is from the German words for "Lion Man" (i.e. from Yehuda - the tribe of the lion). It may refer to:
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
word Lehen, meaning fiefdom
Fiefdom
A fee was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable lands granted under one of several varieties of feudal tenure by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the...
. Some Jewish Lehmann families state that the origin of their name is from the German words for "Lion Man" (i.e. from Yehuda - the tribe of the lion). It may refer to:
- Anna Ilsabe LehmannBarthold Heinrich BrockesBarthold Heinrich Brockes was a German poet.He was born at Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied jurisprudence at Halle, and after extensive travels in Italy, France and the Netherlands, settled in Hamburg in 1704...
, wife of Barthold Brockes - Beatrix LehmannBeatrix LehmannBeatrix Alice Lehmann was a British actress, theatre director and author.She trained at the RADA and made her stage debut as Peggy in a 1924 production The Way of the World at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. As well as her extensive theatrical career she appeared in films and on television...
, British actress - Erika LehmannErika LehmannErika Lehmann was a spy for Nazi Germany during World War II.By most accounts, she was born in Oberschopfheim, Germany. Lehmann learned English as a child from her British mother . During the Second World War she served in the German Abwehr...
, Nazi German spy - Darren LehmannDarren LehmannDarren Scott Lehmann is a former Australian cricketer, who made his ODI debut in 1996 and Test debut in 1998. He was on the fringes of national selection for the entirety of the 1990s, and only became a regular in the ODI team in 2001 and Test team in late 2002, before being dropped in early 2005...
, Australian cricket batsman - Erich Leo LehmannErich Leo LehmannErich Leo Lehmann was an American statistician, who contributed to statistical and nonparametric hypothesis testing...
, American statistician - Ernst A. LehmannErnst A. LehmannCaptain Ernst August Lehmann was a German Zeppelin captain. He was one of the most famous and experienced figures in German airship travel.- Pre-war experience :...
, German airship pilot - Federico Carlos LehmannFederico Carlos LehmannFederico Carlos Lehmann was a Colombian ornithologist, plant collector and conservation biologist.-Early years:Lehmann was born in the city of Popayán, in Cauca, Colombia. His father, a Colombia-based German explorer, died while exploring the Río Timbique, and Lehmann was largely brought up by...
(1914–1974), Colombian ornithologist - Frederick William LehmannFrederick William LehmannFrederick William Lehmann was a prominent American lawyer, statesman, United States Solicitor General, and rare book collector.-Biography:...
, former United States Solicitor General - Geoffrey LehmannGeoffrey lehmannGeoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended high school at the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney in 1960 and 1963 respectively...
, Australian poet - Hans LehmannHans LehmannHans Lehmann was a German U-boat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.-Awards:...
, German submarine commander - Hans G. LehmannHans G. LehmannHans Georg Lehmann is a retired German photographer who is noted for his spy shots of prototype automobiles whilst they undergo testing stages, frequenting in locations where test sessions are likely to occur. These photographs regularly appear in automobile magazine.As a result of his success, a...
, German photographer - Harry LehmannHarry LehmannHarry Lehmann was a German physicist.Lehmann studied physics at Rostock and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin....
, German physicist- Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann
- Henri LehmannHenri LehmannHenri Lehmann was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist.__NOEDITSECTION__-Life:Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, Schleswig, Germany, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann and from other painters in Hamburg...
, German artist - Henry LehmannHenry LehmannHenry Lehmann , was the General Manager of General Electric's military systems operations in Syracuse, New York and a philanthropist within the American Jewish Community.-Childhood fleeing Nazi Germany:...
, American engineer, emigre from Germany - Herman LehmannHerman LehmannHerman Lehmann was captured as a child by Native Americans. He lived first among the Apache and then the Comanche but eventually returned to his family later on in his life. The phenomenon of a "white boy" raised by "Indians" made him a notable figure in the United States...
(1859–1932), American kidnapped by Native-Americans - Inge LehmannInge LehmannInge Lehmann FRS , was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth's core is not one single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists which has physical properties that are different from those of the outer core.-Life:Inge Lehmann was born and grew up in Østerbro, a part of...
, Danish seismologist- Lehmann discontinuityLehmann discontinuityThe Lehmann discontinuity refers to an abrupt increase of P-wave and S-wave velocities in the vicinity of 220±30 km depth, discovered by seismologist Inge Lehmann. It appears beneath continents, but not usually beneath oceans, and does not readily appear in globally averaged studies...
- Lehmann discontinuity
- Issachar Berend LehmannIssachar Berend LehmannIssachar Berend Lehmann, Berend Lehmann, Yissakhar Bermann Segal, Yissakhar ben Yehuda haLevi, Berman Halberstadt * Essen Apr...
, German banker - Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm LehmannJacob Heinrich Wilhelm LehmannJacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann was a German astronomer. He is most noted today as the namesake for the crater Lehmann on the Moon....
(1800–1863), German astronomer- Lehmann (crater)Lehmann (crater)Lehmann is a lunar impact crater attached to the northern rim of the much larger walled plain Schickard. To the northwest is the crater Lacroix....
- Lehmann (crater)
- Jean-Pierre LehmannJean-Pierre LehmannJean-Pierre Lehmann is Professor of International Political Economy at IMD and the Founding Director of The Evian Group at IMD. In August 2011, he was appointed Senior Fellow at the , a think-tank producing innovative thinking and research on global issues from Asian perspectives.- Biography...
, Professor of International Political Economy at IMD and Founding Director of The Evian Group at IMDThe Evian Group at IMDThe Evian Group at IMD is an international coalition of corporate, government and opinion leaders, committed to fostering an open, inclusive, equitable and sustainable global market economy in a rules-based multilateral framework.-History and mission:... - Jens LehmannJens LehmannJens Gerhard Lehmann is a German former football goalkeeper. He was voted UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year for the 1996–97 and 2005–06 seasons, and he has been selected for three World Cup squads. He was a member of Arsenal's Invincibles, playing every match of their famous unbeaten title winning...
, German football (soccer) player (goalkeeper) - Johann Georg Christian LehmannJohann Georg Christian LehmannJohann Georg Christian Lehmann was a German botanist.Born at Haselau, near Uetersen, Holstein, Lehmann studied medicine in Copenhagen and Göttingen, obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1813 and a doctorate in philosophy from he University of Jena in 1814...
, German botanist - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German geologist
- John LehmannJohn LehmannRudolf John Frederick Lehmann was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine.The fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of Helen Lehmann, novelist Rosamond...
, English poet - Jörgen LehmannJörgen LehmannJörgen Erik Lehmann was a Danish-born Swedish physician and chemist best-known for his discovery in the 1940s that para-amino salicylic acid would make an excellent orally-available tuberculosis therapy...
, Danish-born Swedish chemist - Julius Friedrich Lehmann, promoter of social psychiatry during the Third Reich
- Justus Lehmann, prominent German-American physiatrist
- Karl Bernhard LehmannKarl Bernhard LehmannKarl Bernhard Lehmann was a German hygienist and bacteriologist born in Zurich. He was a brother to publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann ....
(1858–1940), German microbiologist - Karl Lehmann (*1936), Bishop of Mainz, Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Kevin K. LehmannKevin K. LehmannKevin K. Lehmann is an American chemist and spectroscopist, and a famous professor, in both physics and chemistry at the University of Virginia, best-known for his work in the area of intramolecular and collisional dynamics, and for his advances in the method of cavity ring down spectroscopy...
, American chemist - Lilli LehmannLilli LehmannLilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, later Elisabeth Maria Lehmann-Kalisch was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility...
(1848–1929), German soprano and voice coach - Lotte LehmannLotte LehmannCharlotte "Lotte" Lehmann was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart and Massenet. The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest...
(1888–1976), German singer - Michael LehmannMichael LehmannMichael Stephen Lehmann is an American film and television director.Lehmann attended Columbia University. His first job in the film industry was answering phones at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope film company. Later he supervised cameras on films that included 1983's The Outsiders...
, film and television director - Olga LehmannOlga LehmannOlga Lehmann was a visual artist.Born in Catemu, Chile, to Mary Grisel Lehmann and mining engineer Andrew William Lehmann, Olga Lehmann had one sister, Monica , and one brother, George...
, English artist and film designer - Orla LehmannOrla LehmannPeter Martin Orla Lehmann was a Danish statesman, a key figure in the development of Denmark's parliamentary government....
, Danish statesman - Otto LehmannOtto LehmannOtto Lehmann was a German physicist and "father" of liquid crystal technology.-Life:...
(1855–1922), German physicist - Peter Lehmann (winemaker), Australian vintner
- Peter Lehmann (author)Peter Lehmann (author)Peter Lehmann is an author, social scientist, publisher, provider of a mail-order book-service and an independent freelance activist in humanistic anti-psychiatry, living in Berlin, Germany....
, German author and publisher - R. C. LehmannR. C. LehmannRudolph Chambers "R.C." Lehmann was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.Lehmann was born in...
, politician, humourist and father of Beatrix, Rosamond and John - Rosamond LehmannRosamond LehmannRosamond Nina Lehmann, CBE , was a British novelist. Her first novel, Dusty Answer , was a succès de scandale; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set...
, British novelist - Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, former editor of Punch magazine
- Stephan LehmannStephan LehmannStephan Lehmann is a retired Swiss football goalkeeper, last works as Assistant-, Goal- and Incentive Coach by FC Carl Zeiss Jena.-International:He was capped 18 times for the Swiss national team between 1989 and 1997...
, Swiss football goalkeeper - Thomas LehmannThomas LehmannTom Lehmann has been an economist, programmer, boardgame publisher, game designer, and technical writer.-Published Games:*Fast Food Franchise *Time Agent *Suzerain...
, American board game designer - Willi LehmannWilli LehmannWilli Lehmann was a police official and Soviet agent in Nazi Germany.Lehmann was a criminal inspector and SS-Hauptsturmführer , alias Agent A-201/Breitenbach. During World War II Lehmann was one of the most valuable sources for the NKVD in Germany.Lehrmann joined the Berlin police force in 1911...
, German spy for the Soviets - Winfred P. LehmannWinfred P. LehmannWinfred P. Lehmann was an American linguist noted for his work in historical linguistics, particularly Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic, as well as for pioneering work in machine translation.-Biography:After receiving B.A. in Humanities at the Northwestern College in Watertown in 1936, he...
, American linguist
See also
- LehmanLehman- People :*Albert Lehman, American Olympic medalist lacrosse player* Bruce Lehman , American patent lawyer* David Lehman , American poetry editor* Edward E...
- LehmanniaLehmanniaLehmannia is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Limacidae.- Species :This genus contains the following species:* Lehmannia brunneri Lehmannia is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family...
, a genus of slugs - LemannLemannLemann is a surname, and may refer to:* Jorge Paulo Lemann * Nicholas Berthelot Lemann- See also :* Lemann's Banksia * Lehmann* Lehman* Leman...
- Herr LehmannHerr LehmannHerr Lehmann is a German novel by Sven Regener, published in 2001, adapted for the screen in 2003. It has been translated into English by John Brownjohn under the title Berlin Blues....
, book by Sven Regener - LGB (Lehmann Gross Bahn)LGB (Lehmann Gross Bahn)LGB is the standard acronym for Lehmann Gross Bahn - the "Lehmann Big Railway" in German. Made by Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk in Nuremberg, Germany, since 1968 and by Märklin since 2007, it is the most popular garden railway model in Europe, although there are also many models of U.S. and...
, a producer of toy locomotives - Lehmann–Scheffé theoremLehmann–Scheffé theoremIn statistics, the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem is prominent in mathematical statistics, tying together the ideas of completeness, sufficiency, uniqueness, and best unbiased estimation...