Meister (surname)
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Meister is a family name
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Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
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- Alton MeisterAlton MeisterAlton Meister was an American biochemist who made pioneering contributions on the study of glutathione metabolism. He was born in New York and studied at Cornell University. After gaining his MD he moved to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethusda, Maryland...
(1922—1995), U.S. biochemist - Erwin MeisterErwin MeisterErwin Meister is a Swiss businessman who, with his partner Edwin Bollier, formed the company Mebo Telecommunications in 1969. They bought a Dutch freighter, renamed it Mebo II, and converted it into an offshore radio station.-RNI:...
, Swiss entrepreneur - George MeisterGeorge MeisterGeorge Meister was an American professional baseball player. A third baseman, he played part of one season in Major League Baseball for the 1884 Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association.-External links:...
(aka Georg Meister; 1653—1713), German botanist - John MeisterJohn MeisterJohn F. Meister was an American baseball player. Meister played two seasons in Major League Baseball, 1886–87, for the New York Metropolitans, primarily as a second baseman....
(1863—1923), U.S. baseball player - Joseph MeisterJoseph MeisterJoseph Meister was the first person to be inoculated against rabies by Louis Pasteur, and the first person to be successfully treated for the infection....
(1876—1940), French animal attack victim - Karl Wilhelm von MeisterKarl Wilhelm von MeisterKarl Wilhelm von Meister was a German politician and diplomat.-Life and work:...
(1863—1935), German politician - Morris MeisterMorris MeisterDr. Morris Meister was the founder and first principal of the Bronx High School of Science as well as the first president of Bronx Community College...
, U.S. school principal and academic administrator - Ralf MeisterRalf MeisterRalf Meister is a German Lutheran theologian, former General Superintendent of Berlin, and Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover....
(*1962) General Superintendent of Berlin and bishop-elect of Hanover - William von MeisterWilliam von MeisterWilliam F. von Meister was an American entrepreneur who founded and participated in a number of startup ventures in the Washington, D.C., area...
(1941—1995), U.S. entrepreneur
Fictional characters
- Wilhelm Meister, from the 1795 novel Wilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is the second novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1795-96. While his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, featured a hero driven to suicide by despair, the eponymous hero of this novel undergoes a journey of self-realization...
by Goethe