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:

* Arthur Mahler (1871–1944), Austrian archeologist
* Bruce Mahler (born 1950), American actor
* Eduard Mahler (1857–1945), Hungarian-Austrian orientalist, astronomer, natural scientist
* Fanny Mahler (1854–1942), Austrian pianist and music teacher
* Gregory Mahler (born 1950), American political scientist
* Henry Mahler (1921–1983), Austrian-American biochemist
* Halfdan T. Mahler (1923–2016), Danish physician
* Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950), German writer
* Horst Mahler (born 1936), German lawyer and political extremist
* Kurt Mahler (1903–1988), German-British mathematician
* Margaret Mahler (1897–1985), Hungarian psychoanalytic child psychologist
* Marian Mahler (1908–1982), British designer, commercial artist, and book illustrator
* Mickey Mahler (born 1952), American baseball player
* Nicolas Mahler (born 1969) Austrian artist
* Raphael Mahler (1899–1977), Jewish historian from Poland, America, and Israel
* Rick Mahler (1953–2005), American baseball player
* Thomas Mahler, Austrian game developer and founder of Moon Studios
* Vincent A. Mahler (born 1949), American political scientist

## See also

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* Mahler (disambiguation)
* Maler

## Notes

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

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