Meissner
Meissner, Meißner or Meisner may refer to:
- Geography
Meissner is the name of the following geographic features:
- the Meissner (range), an important mountain range in Hesse, Germany
- Hoher Meissner, the highest peak of the Meissner range
- Meißner, Hesse, a community in the district Werra-Meißner-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany
- Surnames
Meißner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname and its variants include:
- Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), Austrian engineer and physicist
- Andy Meisner (born 1973), American politician
- August Gottlieb Meißner (1753–1807), German writer
- Boris Meissner (1915–2003), German lawyer and social scientist
- Bruno Meissner (1868–1947), German assyriologist
- Carl Meissner (1800–1874), Swiss botanist
- Meisner's Banksia, Australian shrub
- Carl Meissner (1830–1900), German Latin scholar
- Ernst Meisner (born 1982), Dutch dancer and choreographer
- Friedrich Ludwig Meissner (1796–1860), German obstetrician
- Fred Meissner (1931–2007), American geologist and engineer
- Freda Meissner-Blau (born 1927), Austrian politician and activist
- Georg Meissner (1829–1905), German anatomist and physiologist
- Meissner's corpuscle, type of mechanoreceptor
- Meissner's plexus, intestinal nerve plexus
- Greg Meisner (born 1959), American football player
- Günter Meisner (1926–1994), German actor
- Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), German writer and novelist
- Heike Meißner, German hurdler and runner
- Heinrich August Meißner (1862–1940), German railway engineer and Ottoman Pasha[1]
- James Meissner (1896–1936), American World War I flying ace
- Janusz Meissner (1901–1978), Polish writer and aviator
- Joachim Meisner (born 1933), Cardinal and archbishop of Cologne, Germany
- Jochen Meißner (born 1943), German rower
- Johann Heinrich Meißner (1701-1770), German sculptor and wood carver
- Joern Meissner (born 1970), German academic and business consultant
- Karl Meissner (1891–1959), German-American physicist
- Katrin Meissner (born 1973), German swimmer
- Kimmie Meissner (born 1989), American figure skater
- Maurice Meisner (1931–2012), American historian of 20th century China
- Otto Meissner (1880–1953), head of the Office of the Reich President, Germany
- Paul Traugott Meissner (1778–1864), Austrian chemist
- Randy Meisner (born 1946), founder of the band the Eagles and solo artist
- Randy Meisner (1978 album), self-titled
- Randy Meisner (1982 album), self-titled
- Renate Meißner (born 1950), German sprinter and triple Olympic champion
- Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and acting coach
- Meisner technique, an acting technique
- Silvio Meißner (born 1973), German football player
- Stan Meissner (born 1956), Canadian songwriter/composer
- Stefan Meissner (born 1973), German football player
- Verne Meisner (1938–2005), American polka musician
- Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German technical physicist
- Meissner effect, decay of a magnetic field inside a superconductor
See also
References
- ↑ Walter Pinhas Pick, Gād G. Gîlbar, Ed. Ottoman Palestine, 1800-1914: Studies in Economic and Social History, Chapter 6, p.179
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