Burchard (name)

Burchard
Pronunciation	/ˈ/
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Germanic
Meaning	""
Region of origin	Europe
Popularity	see popular names

Burchard (Bouchard, Burckhart, Burkhart, Burkard, Burkhard, Burkert, Borchardt, Burckhardt and variants, Old English Burgheard) are both Germanic given names and surnames, from Burg "castle" and hart "hard". Notable people with the name include:

Given name[edit]

Burchard

Burchard of Würzburg, an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire
Burchard I, Duke of Swabia (c. 855/860–911)
Burchard II, Duke of Swabia (c. 883 – 926)
Burchard III, Duke of Swabia (c. 915 – 973)
Burchard, Duke of Thuringia (died 908)
Burchard of Worms (c. 950 – 1025), theologian
Burchard (archbishop of Vienne) (died 1031)
Burchard (bishop of Aosta) (died 1068), also Archbishop of Lyon (1033–1034), under the name Burchard III
Burchard II, Bishop of Halberstadt, 11th-century German cleric and statesman
Burchard of Basle, 11th-century bishop of Basle
Burchard of Istria (died 1106/1107)
Burchard, Bishop of Utrecht, 11th/12th century
Burchard (fl.Tooltip floruit 1150–1195), second abbot of St. John's Abbey in the Thurtal, see Berchtold of Engelberg
Burchard of Mount Sion, 13th-century traveler to the Middle East

Burghard

Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst (1825–1895), Prussian parliamentarian

Burkhard

Burkhard Gladigow (1939–2022), German scholar of religious studies and classical philology

Burkard

Burkard Polster (born 1965), mathematician

Surname[edit]

Borchard

Adolphe Borchard (1882–1967), French pianist and composer
August Borchard (1864–1940), German physician and surgeon
Beatrix Borchard (1950), German musicologist and author
Edwin Borchard (1884–1951), international legal scholar and jurist
Ian Borchard (1957), former Australian rules footballer
Joe Borchard (1978), American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
Leo Borchard (1899–1945), German-Russian conductor
Ruth Borchard (1910–2000), British writer

Borchardt

Borchert

Bernhard Borchert (1863–1945), Baltic German artist in Latvia
Jochen Borchert (born 1940), German politician
John R. Borchert, proponent of Borchert's Epochs
Katrin Borchert (born 1969), German Australian kayaker
William G. Borchert, American screenwriter
Wolfgang Borchert (1921–1947), German author

Bouchard

Bourquard

Claude Bourquard (1937–2011), French fencer

Burchard

Burchard-Bélaváry family, an aristocratic family of Hungarian origin, originally called Both de Szikava et Bélavár
Brendon Burchard (born 1977), American author and motivational speaker
Ernst Burchard (1876–1920), German author and doctor
Charles Burchard (1810–1879), American politician from Wisconsin
Horatio C. Burchard (1825–1908), American politician from Illinois
Johann Burchard, 15th-century church figure
Johann Burchard Freystein (1671–1718), German lawyer and hymn writer
Johann Heinrich Burchard (1852–1912), Hamburg lawyer and politician
Oscar Burchard (1863–1949), German botanist, see List of Euphorbia species (G-O)
Peter Burchard, author
Petrea Burchard (born 1955), American actress
Samuel D. Burchard (politician) (1836–1901), American politician from Wisconsin
Pablo Burchard (1879–1964), Chilean painter
Wolf Burchard (*1985), British-German art historian and museum curator

Burchardt

Brigitte Burchardt (born 1954), German chess player
Regina Burchardt (born 1983), German volleyball player
Ulla Burchardt (born 1954), German politician

Burckhardt

Burckhardt, or (de) Bourcard, a family of the Basel patriciate
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817), Swiss traveler and orientalist
- Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), Swiss historian of art and culture
- Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), Swiss psychiatrist
- Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891–1974), Swiss diplomat and historian
- Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984), Swiss author and traditionalist
- Rudy Burckhardt (1914–1999), Swiss-American filmmaker and photographer
Carl Nathanael Burckhardt (1878–1923), Swiss painter and sculptor
Fabian Burckhardt, Swiss curler
Johann Jakob Burckhardt (1903–2006), Swiss mathematician and crystallographer
Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773–1825), German astronomer and mathematician
Karl Burckhardt-Iselin (1830–1893), Swiss politician
Martha Burkhardt (1874–1956), Swiss painter
Max Burckhard (1854–1912), Austrian theatre director
Walter Burckhardt (1905–1971), Swiss dermatologist

Burgard

Wolfram Burgard (born 1961), German roboticist

Burgert

Jonas Burgert, German artist

Burghardt

Anne Burghardt (born 1975), Estonian Lutheran theologian
Arthur Burghardt (born 1947), American actor
Günter Burghardt (born 1941), German diplomat
Jack Burghardt (1929–2002), Canadian news broadcaster and politician
Marcus Burghardt (born 1983), German cyclist

Burkard

Chris Burkard (born 1986), American photographer
Oscar Burkard (1877–1950), German-American soldier
Rainer Burkard (born 1943), Austrian mathematician
Stephen F. Burkard (born 1897), New York state senator

Burkart

Arturo Burkart (1906–1975), Argentine botanist, see Prosopis
Claudia Burkart (born 1980), Argentine field hockey player
Stefan Burkart (1957–2020), Swiss Olympic sprinter
Thierry Burkart (born 1975), Swiss politician

Burkhard

Paul Burkhard (1911–1977), Swiss composer
Willy Burkhard (1900–1955), Swiss composer

Burkhardt

Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt (1861–1914), German mathematician
Filip Burkhardt (born 1987), Polish footballer
Marcin Burkhardt (born 1983), Polish footballer
Nick Burkhardt, fictional Grimm character

Burkhart

Jackie Burkhart, fictional That '70s Show character
Morgan Burkhart (born 1972), American baseball player

Burkert

Herbert Burkert, German law scholar
Martin Burkert (born 1964), German politician
Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born 1933), American artist and illustrator
Rudolf Burkert (1904–1985), German/Czechoslovakian Nordic skier
Walter Burkert (1931–2015), German classicist

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