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Bernays is a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 and may refer to:
  • Isaac Bernays
    Isaac Bernays
    thumbIsaac Bernays was chief rabbi in Hamburg.-Life:Bernays was born in Mainz. He was the son of Jacob Gera, a boarding house keeper at Mainz, and an elder brother of Adolphus Bernays...

     (1792 - 1840), a German rabbi, and father of:
    • Jakob Bernays
      Jakob Bernays
      Jakob Bernays was a German philologist and philosophical writer.-Life:Bernays was born in Hamburg to Jewish parents...

       (1824 - 1881), a German classical linguist
    • Michael Bernays
      Michael Bernays
      Michael Bernays was born in Hamburg. He studied first law and then literature at Bonn and Heidelberg.He obtained a considerable reputation by his lectures on Shakespeare at Leipzig and an explanatory text to Beethoven's music to Egmont...

       (1834 - 1897), a German literature historian
      • Martha Bernays
        Martha Bernays
        Martha Bernays was the wife of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.Bernays was the second daughter of Emmeline and Berman Bernays. Her paternal grandfather Isaac Bernays was a Chief Rabbi of Hamburg...

         (1861-1951), granddaughter of Isaac Bernays and wife of Sigmund Freud
        Sigmund Freud
        Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
        • Paul Bernays
          Paul Bernays
          Paul Isaac Bernays was a Swiss mathematician, who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant to, and close collaborator of, David Hilbert.-Biography:Bernays spent his childhood in Berlin. Bernays attended the...

           (1888 - 1977), a Swiss mathematician born in London, a great-grandson of Isaac
        • Edward Bernays
          Edward Bernays
          Edward Louis Bernays , was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda along with Ivy Lee, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations"...

           (1891-1995), nephew of Sigmund Freud
          Sigmund Freud
          Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...

          , great-grandson of Isaac Bernays and the "father of public relations"
          • Anne Bernays
            Anne Bernays
            Anne Bernays is an American novelist, editor, and teacher.-Life:A graduate of Barnard College, she was managing editor of discovery, a literary magazine, before moving from New York to Cambridge, MA, in 1959 when she began her career as a novelist.Bernays has been published widely in national...

             (born 1930), daughter of Edward Bernays and American novelist

  • Adolphus Bernays
    Adolphus Bernays
    Adolphus Bernays was the first professor of German in the King’s College in London, and second professor of German in England.- Biography :...

     — Professor of German Language in London, brother of Isaac
    • Lewis Adolphus Bernays
      Lewis Adolphus Bernays
      Lewis Adolphus Bernays CMG was a public servant and agricultural writer in Queensland, Australia.-Early life:Bernays was the son of Dr Adolphus Bernays , a professor of German language and literature at King's College London, and his wife Martha, née Arrowsmith, and was born in London...

       (1831-1908), a public servant and agricultural writer in Australia (son of Adolphus and a nephew of Isaac Bernays)

  • Robert Bernays
    Robert Bernays
    Robert Hamilton Bernays was a Liberal Party, and later Liberal National, politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1945....

     (1902 - 1945) Liberal MP
  • Frederick Bernays Wiener
    Frederick Bernays Wiener
    Frederick Bernays "Fritz" Wiener was an American jurist specializing in military justice and constitutional law who became famous for the 1957 case of Reid v. Covert, which represents the only time a lawyer lost in the Supreme Court of the United States but prevailed on rehearing...

     (1906–1996), American jurist


It may also refer to:
  • Von Neumann-Bernays-Gödel set theory