Burchard (name)

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

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 (born 1939), German scholar of religious studies and classical philology

Burkard

• Burkard Polster (born 1965), mathematician

Surname

Borchard

• Beatrix Borchard (born 1950), German musicologist
• Edwin Borchard (1884–1951), American jurist
• Joe Borchard (born 1978), American baseball player
• Leo Borchard (1899–1945), Russian conductor

Borchardt

Main article: 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

Main article: Borchardt

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, 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 (1836–1901), American politician from Wisconsin
• Pablo Burchard (1879–1964), Chilean painter

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
• Fabian Burckhardt, Swiss curler
• Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773–1825), German astronomer and mathematician
• 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

• Arthur Burghardt (born 1947), American actor
• 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
• Stefan Burkart (born 1957), Swiss Olympic sprinter

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

See also

• Burgheard