Mahler (surname)
Mahler most often refers to Gustav Mahler, Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. His family included:
- Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879–1964), Austrian socialite and wife of, successively, Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
- Anna Mahler (1904–1988), Austrian-UK sculptor, daughter of Gustav and Alma Mahler
- Fritz Mahler (1901–1973), Austrian conductor, and cousin once removed of Gustav Mahler
- Otto Mahler (1873–1895), Bohemian-Austrian musician and youngest brother of Gustav Mahler
- Joseph Mahler (1900–1981), inventor of the Vectograph stereoscopic technique, cousin of Gustav Mahler
- Zdeněk Mahler (born 1936), Czech pedagogue, writer, publicist and musicologist, distantly related with Gustav Mahler
Other people named Mahler (German for "someone who grinds"[1]) include:
- Arthur Mahler (1871–1944), Austrian archeologist
- David Mahler (born 1944), US hammered dulcimer player
- Eduard Mahler or Ede Mahler (1857–1945), Hungarian-Austrian orientalist, astronomer, natural scientist
- Gregory Mahler (born 1950), administrator and U.S. Political Science scholar and professor
- Halfdan T. Mahler (born 1923), Dane, former Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
- Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950), German writer
- Horst Mahler (born 1936), German lawyer and political extremist
- Kurt Mahler (1903–1988), mathematician
- Margaret Mahler (1897–1985), Hungarian psychoanalytic child psychologist
- Mickey Mahler (born 1952), U.S. baseball player
- Nicolas Mahler (born 1969) Austrian Artist
- Rick Mahler (1953–2005), U.S. baseball player
- Vincent A. Mahler (born 1949), U.S. political science scholar and professor
See also
- Mahler (film), a 1974 biographical film based on the life of composer Gustav Mahler
- Mahler measure, M(p) of a polynomial p is
- Mahler's compactness theorem, proved by Kurt Mahler (1946), is a foundational result on lattices in Euclidean space, characterising sets of lattices that are 'bounded' in a certain definite sense
- Mahler's theorem, introduced by Kurt Mahler (1958), expresses continuous p-adic functions in terms of polynomials
- Maler (disambiguation)
Notes
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