Mahler (surname)

Mahler is a German occupational surname. Mahler was a variant spelling of Maler ("painter"), particularly a stained glass painter.[1]

The name most often refers to Gustav Mahler, Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. His family included:

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879–1964), Austrian socialite and wife of, successively, Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
  • Anna Mahler (1904–1988), Austrian-UK sculptor, daughter of Gustav and Alma Mahler
  • Fritz Mahler (1901–1973), Austrian conductor, and cousin once removed of Gustav Mahler
  • Otto Mahler (1873–1895), Bohemian-Austrian musician and youngest brother of Gustav Mahler
  • Joseph Mahler (1900–1981), inventor of the Vectograph stereoscopic technique, cousin of Gustav Mahler
  • Zdeněk Mahler (1936–2018), Czech pedagogue, writer, publicist and musicologist, distantly related with Gustav Mahler

Other people named Mahler include:

See also

  • Mahler (film), a 1974 biographical film based on the life of composer Gustav Mahler
  • Mahler measure, M(p) of a polynomial p is
  • Mahler's compactness theorem, proved by Kurt Mahler (1946), is a foundational result on lattices in Euclidean space, characterising sets of lattices that are 'bounded' in a certain definite sense
  • Mahler's theorem, introduced by Kurt Mahler (1958), expresses continuous p-adic functions in terms of polynomials
  • Maler

Notes

  1. ↑ Mahler in the Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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