Buchholz (surname)

A Country Study: Hungary – Hungary under the Habsburgs". Federal Research Division. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2009-04-14.Buchholz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Barbara Buchholz (1959-2012), German musician and composer
• Bob Buchholz, American voice actor in anime films
• Butch Buchholz (born 1940), American former tennis player
• Christine Buchholz (born 1971), German politician, Die Linke (The Left) member of the Bundestag
• Clay Buchholz (born 1984), American baseball player (pitcher)
• Detlev Buchholz (born 1944), German theoretical physicist
• Erich Buchholz (1891-1972), German painter
• Francis Buchholz (born 1984), German rock n' roll bass player
• Fyodor Buchholz (1857-1942), Russian-Soviet painter
• Horst Buchholz (1933–2003), German actor
• John Theodore Buchholz (1888-1951), American botanist
• Justin Buchholz (born 1983), American MMA artist
• Ludwig Heinrich Buchholtz, Prussian diplomat
• Matthias Buchholz (born 1957), German violist
• Max Buchholz (1875–1956), engineer (who invented the Buchholz relay)
• Sabrina Buchholz (born 1980), German biathlete
• Scott Buchholz (born 1968), Australian politician
• Taylor Buchholz (born 1981), American baseball player
• Todd G. Buchholz, economic policy commentator
• Werner Buchholz (historian), German historian
• Werner Buchholz (born 1922), American computer scientist who coined the term "byte"
• Garth Von Buchholz, Canadian author

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During the Austro-Hungarian empire, in the kingdom of Hungary people of non-Hungarian ethnicity — people of Jewish, German and Slovak ancestry — were encouraged to adopt Hungarian surnames.Some people with German names translated them directly into Hungarian.Some of them just magyarized their original German surname Buchholz into the Hungarian form Bukholczer.

Stefania Ruzsits Jha, Reconsidering Michael Polanyi's Philosophy (2002), p. 7. "In the Hungarian part of the monarchy non-Hungarian ethnic people were encouraged to adopt Hungarian surnames and to learn the Hungarian language in addition to the several others they were already speaking.

Pieter M. Judson, Marsha L. Rozenblit, Constructing nationalities in East Central Europe (2005), p. 41 "While some people with German names translated them directly into Hungarian (hence the draftsman Nikolaus Liebe — in English, Nicholas Love — became Miklos Szerelmey), others were more inventive in their choice of Hungarian surnames