Kolb (surname)
The surname Kolb originates from the Middle High German "kolbe", with various meanings. The main sense is a mace – a heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor, or a cudgel – a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon and part of an official’s insignia. It may also be a house name – there is a record of a house named Zum Kolben in Strasbourg.[1][2]
- Abram Bowman Kolb (1862–1925), Canadian teacher and publisher
- Alexander Kolb (1891–1963), German general
- Allison Kolb (1915–1973), U.S. politician
- Annette Kolb (1870–1967), German pacifist
- Barbara Kolb (born 1939), U.S. composer
- Brandon Kolb (born 1973), U.S. baseball player
- Brian Kolb (born 1952), U.S. politician
- Bubba Kolb (born 1940), jazz pianist
- Carol Kolb (unknown), U.S. comedy writer
- Chris Kolb (1958), U.S. politician
- Clarence Kolb (1874–1964), U.S. vaudeville performer
- Claudia Kolb (born 1949), U.S. swimmer
- Dan Kolb (born 1975), U.S. baseball player
- David Kolb (born 1941), U.S. philosopher
- David A. Kolb (born 1939), U.S. educationist
- Edward Kolb (born 1951), American cosmologist
- Frank Kolb (born 1945), German historian
- Franz Kolb (unknown), German inventor
- Jon Kolb (born 1947), U.S. football player
- Lawrence Kolb (1911–2006), U.S. psychiatrist
- Ophélia Kolb (born 1982), French actress
- Michael J. Kolb (born c. 1960s), U.S. archaeologist
- Robert Kolb (born c. 1940), U.S. theologian, systematician
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References
- ↑ "Kolb Name Meaning". ancestry.com. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
In Silesia the term denoted a shock of hair or a shorn head.
- ↑ "Surname Kolbe". surnames.behindthename.com. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
Means 'mace' in German. A mace is a heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armour.
See also
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