Schwarzschild

This article is about the surname and those bearing it. For other uses, see Schwarzschild (disambiguation).

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Schwarzschild ([ˈʃvaʁtsʃɪlt]) is a German surname^[1] meaning "black sign" or "black shield".
Those bearing the name include:

Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), physicist and astronomer
Steven Schwarzschild (1924–1989), philosopher and rabbi
Henry Schwarzschild (1926–1996), civil rights activist
Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997), astronomer
Shimon Schwarzschild (1925–), environmental activist
Luise Hercus (née Schwarzschild) (1926–), linguist

See also

Rothschild

Footnotes

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It is likely to be misspelled and/or mispronounced by native English speakers, particularly involving failure to grasp that
- German sch (at the beginning of each of the two syllables) is pronounced as English sh,
- German w is pronounced as English v, and
- German z is pronounced as English ts.
Some English speakers omit the s that begins the second syllable and pronounce child and childe (instead of approximating either English shield or German [ʃɪlt]).

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