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König is the German language word for King. Family names derived from König are also spelled without the umlaut ö as Koenig or without correct transliteration of the umlaut just as Konig.

People named König or Konig

• Arthur König (1856-1901), German physician
• Charles Konig (1774-1851), German-born British naturalist
• Dénes Kőnig (1884-1944), Hungarian mathematician and son of Gyula Kőnig
• Dieter Konig, hydroplane racer, manufacturer of Konig two stroke engines
• Elazar Mordechai Koenig, Breslov rabbi and leader in Safed, Israel
• Franz König, (1905-2004), Cardinal, Archbishop of Vienna
• Franz König, (1832-1910), German surgeon
• Friedrich Eduard König, German Protestant theologian; born in Reichenbach, Saxony
• Friedrich Wilhelm König, Czech-German linguist [1]
• Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs (1858–1931), French mathematician, Poncelet Prize in 1913
• Gedaliah Aharon Koenig, Breslov rabbi and leader in Jerusalem
• Gyula Kőnig, also known as Julius König, Hungarian mathematician; born in Raab
• Johann König (born 1972), German comedian
• Johann Gerhard König (1728–1785) German botanist in India
• Johann Samuel König (1712–1757), German mathematician
• Joseph König (1819-1900), German theologian
• Karl Rudolf König (1832-1901), German physicist
• Ralf König, German comic artist
• Rudolf König (1865–1927) was an Austrian merchant, amateur astronomer and selenographer
• Wilhelm König, German archaeologist

People named Koenig or Kœnig

• Albert König (1871−1946) German optician, designer of the König eyepiece
• Alexander Koenig (1858-1940), German naturalist
• Andrew Koenig (actor) (1968-2010), American actor
• Andrew Koenig (programmer), American computer scientist and author
• Ezra Koenig, American musician, singer/guitarist from Vampire Weekend
• Friedrich Koenig (1774-1833), German inventor
• Fritz Koenig (born 1924), German artist and sculptor
• Gottfried Michael Koenig (born 1926), German-Dutch contemporary composer
• Julian Koenig, American advertising executive
• Kristin Koenig (1890-1990), American philosopher and revolutionary
• Kristopher Koenig, entrepreneur
• Marie Pierre Koenig (1898-1970), French marshal
• Mark Koenig (1904-1993), American baseball player
• Pierre Koenig (1925-2004), American architect
• Simon W. Koenig, III, also know as Kone, Network Coordinator Ohio Valley General Hospital, Son of S.W.Koenig, Jr.
• Robbie Koenig, South African touring tennis professional during the 1990s
• Sven Koenig (computer scientist), computer scientist
• Walter Koenig (born 1936), American actor

Other uses

• Commander John Koenig, leader of Moonbase Alpha, fictional character in Space: 1999 played by Martin Landau
• Tolle Koenig, fictional character in the anime series Gundam Seed
• Koenig Specials, German based tuner of luxury sportscars
• The Koenig Memorandum, Israeli government document of 1976
• König type of eyepiece named after designer Albert König
• König's theorem (set theory), named after Gyula Kőnig
• König's theorem (graph theory), named after Dénes Kőnig
• König's theorem (kinetics), named after Samuel König
• König's lemma in graph theory, named after Dénes Kőnig
• König (crater), a lunar crater named after Rudolf König
• SMS König, German battleship, and König class battleships
• König-Brauerei, beer brewery and its beer König Pilsener
• Erwin König, WWII German sniper
• König, Italian manufacturer of vehicle snow chains. A subsidiary of the Thule corporation group of companies
• König, Manufacturer of two stroke engines used in outboard motors, motorcycles and road racing sidecars
• König Komfort- und Rennsitze GmbH, Ilsfeld, Germany, based company providing luxury and racing seats for automobiles and other uses
  • Formula König (de:Formel König), a formula racing series active from 1988 to 2004 sponsored by the company
• Koenig lookup, a method used in the C++ programming language to look up unqualified function names; also known as argument dependent lookup (ADL)

See also

• King (surname)
• Königsberg (disambiguation)

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkøːnɪç/
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Etymology

From Old High German kuning, akin to Old Saxon kuning, Old English cyning, Finnish and Estonian kuningas, all from Germanic *kuningaz

Noun

König m. (genitive Königes or Königs, plural Könige)

1. king (monarch, chess, card games)

Declension

Related terms

• Königin f.
• königlich
• Königreich n.
• Königssitz
• Königtum
• Zaunkönig m.