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Name Origin

Hermann is a German given name meaning 'army man' or 'warrior'. It originates from the Germanic elements 'herman', meaning 'army', and 'mann', meaning 'man'.

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Famous People

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Writer

  • Nobel Prize in Literature (1946)
  • Author of Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Göring (1893-1946)

Nazi politician and military leader

  • Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
  • Convicted war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)

Physicist, physiologist, mathematician

  • Pioneer in the fields of electrodynamics and thermodynamics
  • Contributed to ophthalmology and the study of the human ear

Hermann Weyl (1885-1955)

Mathematician and physicist

  • Made significant contributions to differential geometry, topology, and quantum mechanics
  • Known for his work on gauge theory and the Riemann hypothesis

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