Klemperer

Klemperer is a German-language occupational surname literally meaning "tinker". It is suggested that in the case of the conductor's immediate family the original name was Klopper - one who knocks on doors to get people to go to Synagogue - and was later changed to the better sounding Klemperer which rhymes with Emperor.

The surname may refer to:

  • Members of the prominent German family:
    • Otto Klemperer (18851973), Jewish German-born conductor and composer
    • Georg Klemperer (18651946), Jewish German medical consultant, brother of Victor and cousin to the conductor Otto Klemperer, advised his cousin in America concerning his brain tumour.
    • Victor Klemperer (18811960), Jewish German businessman, journalist, author and literary critic (Professor of Literature)
    • Otto Klemperer (physicist) (1899–1987), German physicist and cousin to the conductor Otto Klemperer
  • David Klemperer (born 1980), German beach volleyball player
  • Felix Klemperer (18661932), German internist
  • Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau (18521926), German banker
  • James von Klemperer (born 1957), American architect
  • Klemens von Klemperer (19162012), German-American historian
  • Paul Klemperer (born 1956), English economist and Edgeworth Professor of Economics at Oxford University
  • Ralph von Klemperer, German banker
  • Simon Klemperer, Geophysicist and Stanford University professor, brother of Paul Klemperer
  • Viktor Klemperer von Klemenau (18761943), German banker
  • Wilhelm Klemperer (18391912), Rabbi
  • William Klemperer (1927–2017), American chemist and Harvard University professor
  • Wolfgang Klemperer (18931965), German-American physicist and aerospace engineer

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