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

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

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

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: Bouchard

Bourquard

• Claude Bourquard (1937–2011), French fencer

Burchard

• Almut Burchard, German-Canadian mathematician
• 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 (minister), American Presbyterian church leader
• 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
• Hermann Burchardt (1857–1909), German explorer and photographer
• 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
• Mary Silvina Burghardt (1831–1885), American domestic worker and mother of W.E.B. Du Bois

Burkard

• Chris Burkard (born 1986), American photographer
• Michael Burkard (1947–2024), American poet and educator
• 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

• Delara Burkhardt (born 1992), German politician
• 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

Main article: 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