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Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor
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Teodor
Teodor is a masculine given name. In English, it is a cognate of Theodore. Teodor may refer to:* Herman Teodor Holmgren , Swedish architect* Ioan Teodor Callimachi , ruler of Moldavia...
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List of people with the given name Theodor
- Theodor Adorno, German philosopher
- Theodor FontaneTheodor FontaneTheodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.-Youth:Fontane was born in Neuruppin into a Huguenot family. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an apothecary, his father's profession. He became an...
, German writer - Theodor Geisel, American writer and cartoonist, known by the pseudonym Dr. SeussDr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone....
- Theodor HerzlTheodor HerzlTheodor Herzl , born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl was an Ashkenazi Jew Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.-Early life:...
, Jewish journalist and the founder of modern political Zionism - Theodor HeussTheodor HeussTheodor Heuss was a liberal German politician who served as the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II from 1949 to 1959...
, German politician and publicist - Theodor Innitzer, Austrian Catholic cardinal
- Emil Theodor KocherEmil Theodor KocherEmil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss physician, medical researcher, and Nobel laureate for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid....
, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Theodor MommsenTheodor MommsenChristian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research...
, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate - Theodor SvedbergTheodor SvedbergTheodor H. E. Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, active at Uppsala University. His work with colloids supported the theories of Brownian motion put forward by Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski...
, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate - Theodor ZwingerTheodor ZwingerTheodor Zwinger the Elder was a Swiss physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature...
, Swiss scholar