Kundt

Kundt
This famous German surname and original personal name of the pre 7th century, is recorded in over one hundred spellings throughout Europe and Scandanavia. These include the basic forms of Conrad (Medieval German and post medieval English and French), Konrad, Kohrt, Kordt, Kunrad, Kuhndert, Kuhnt, and Kurth found mainly in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, to Koenraad (Czech), Kondrat (Russia), Corradi (Italian), Cunradi (Tuscany), Korlat (Hungary), diminutives such as Kienzle, Kunc, Kunz, Kuntz, Kunzel, Zunzelman, and patronymics Kurten, Coners, Conerding, Conradsen, Coenraets, and Kondratovich, and many, many, more. The origination is the ancient compound given name 'Kuoni-rad', which loosely translates as 'brave counsel', and is one of a very large group of similar Germanic names from about fifteen hundred years ago that include Albert, Frederick, and Willhelm. All have similar meanings associated with strength (of both mind and body), victory and courage. It may be that all relate to 'wishful thinking' or hope for the future, as the development of these names coincided with a period of total chaos and seemingly endless war and invasion throughout Europe, following the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. The name has been recorded since time immemorial, and the first of what might loosely be called a hereditary surname recording, may be that of Conrad Conradi, (Conrad, the son of Little Conrad), in the charters of the German town of Elsabe in the year 1297, with Rudolf Kunzelman or Cunzelman being recorded in Ulm, Switzerland, in 1337.

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  • Kundt — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: August Kundt (1839–1894), deutscher Physiker Ernst Kundt (1897–1947) Legationsrat des Auswärtigen Amtes, Leiter der Kundt Kommission zum Aufspüren Deutscher im besetzten Frankreich (1940) Hans Kundt… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Kundt — Kundt, experimento de …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Kundt — Kụndt,   August Adolph Eberhard, Physiker, * Schwerin 18. 11. 1839, ✝ Israelsdorf (heute zu Lübeck) 21. 5. 1894; Professor in Zürich, Würzburg, Straßburg und Berlin, erfand 1866 ein Verfahren, mithilfe von Staubfiguren im kundtschen Rohr die …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Kundt's tube — is an experimental setup of August Kundt for the measurement of the speed of sound in both a gas and a solid rod.The setup is a transparent pipe which contains a powder such as talc. In one end of the tube is a piston which can be used to tune… …   Wikipedia

  • Kundt (crater) — lunar crater data latitude=11.5 N or S=S longitude=11.5 E or W=W diameter=15 km depth=2.1 km colong=12 eponym=August KundtKundt is a small, bowl shaped lunar impact crater in the northern section of the Mare Nubium. It has a raised rim and is not …   Wikipedia

  • Kundt, August — ▪ German physicist born November 18, 1839, Schwerin, duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin [Germany] died May 21, 1894, Israelsdorf, near Lübeck, Germany       German physicist who developed a method for determining the velocity of sound in gases and… …   Universalium

  • Kundt’s tube — Kundto vamzdis statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. Kundt’s tube vok. Kundtsches Rohr, n rus. труба Кундта, f pranc. tube de Kundt, m …   Fizikos terminų žodynas

  • kundt tube — ˈku̇nt noun Usage: usually capitalized K Etymology: after August Kundt died 1894 German physicist : an acoustically resonating horizontal glass tube in which the standing wave nodes are exhibited by the distribution of a fine powder and that is… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Kundt tube — /koont/, Physics. a gas filled tube used to measure the speed of sound: when a membrane at one end is vibrated at a frequency that produces standing waves, a layer of powder forms lumps at the nodes. [named after August Kundt (1839 94), German… …   Universalium

  • Kundt's rule —    see Oppel Kundt illusion …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

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