Meissner

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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
Beate Meißner (born 1982), German politician
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
Constantin Meissner (1854-1942), Romanian teacher
Elena Meissner (1867–1940), Romanian feminist
Elinor Meissner Traeger (1906–1983), composer
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 (1927–2015), 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 (born 1970), German hurdler and runner
Heinrich August Meissner (1862–1940), German railway engineer and Ottoman Pasha
James Meissner (1896–1936), American World War I flying ace
Janusz Meissner (1901–1978), Polish writer and aviator
Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal and archbishop of Cologne, Germany
Jochen Meißner (born 1943), German rower
Joern Meissner (born 1970), German academic and business consultant
(1701–1770), German sculptor and wood carver
Karl Meissner (1891–1959), German-American physicist
Katrin Meissner (born 1973), German swimmer
Kimmie Meissner (born 1989), American figure skater
Krzysztof Antoni Meissner (born 1961), Polish theoretical physicist
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 (1946–2023), 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
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Native American feminist philosopher
Silvio Meißner (born 1973), German football player
Stan Meissner (born 1956), Canadian songwriter/composer
Stefan Meissner (born 1973), German football player
Stuart Meissner (born 1962), American federal prosecutor and politician
Verne Meisner (1938–2005), American polka musician
Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German technical physicist
- Meissner effect, decay of a magnetic field inside a superconductor
Werner Meißner (1937–2025), German economist, president of the Goethe University Frankfurt (1994–2000)
Wolf Meissner (born 1969), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian

References

Walter Pinhas Pick, Gād G. Gîlbar, Ed. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sdYUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA179 Ottoman Palestine, 1800-1914: Studies in Economic and Social History], Chapter 6, p.179

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