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Kirchner is an occupational surname of German origin, derived from the Middle High German word kirchenaere ('sexton', 'priest', 'church assistant' or 'church property administrator'). [1] Notable people with the name include:

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References

  1. "Kirchner Name Meaning & Kirchner Family History at Ancestry.com". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  2. 1 2 Pablo Teta; Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas; Daniel E. Udrizar Sauthier i Milton H. Gallardo (2014), "A new species of the tetraploid vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys (Caviomorpha, Octodontidae) from central Patagonia, Argentina", Journal of Mammalogy , 95 (1): 60–71, doi: 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-160 , hdl: 11336/22721
  3. Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1573. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  4. See the NCBI webpage on Kirchneriella. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2020-12-29.