Glück
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Glück may refer to:
- Glück, a Jewish surname:
- Alois Glück (* 1940), German politician
- Ernst Glück (1654-1705), German theologian and bible translator
- Gustav Glück (1871-1952), Austrian art historian
- Louise Glück (born 1943), American poet
- Daniel Gluckstein French Politician
- Hannah Gluckstein (1895 - 1978), British painter and lesbian (known as Gluck)
- das Glück, the Modern High German word meaning luck, גליק dos Glik, Glick in Yiddish
- Hans im Glück, a German board and card game publisher
- Glückstadt, a town of Germany in Schleswig-Holstein, on the right bank of the Elbe river
- Glücksburg, a small town in the district Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
[edit] Variant names
Variant and derivative names include: Glick, Glickenhaus, Glickman, Glicksman, Glickson, Glickstein, Glikman, Gliksman, Gleick, Gluck, Gluckman, Glucksmann, Gluckstadt, Gluckstein, Glucksthal, Glueck, Gluecksberg/Gliksberg, Glückselig, Glueckstadt. etc.
People with variant names include:
- Sheldon Glueck (1896-1980), a Polish American criminologist
- Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Harvard University, Touroff-Glueck Professor in Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School, named after Sheldon G.
- Glückel of Hameln, Glikl fun Hamel (1647-1727), Western Yiddish author
- Alma Gluck (Reba Feinsohn) (1884 - 1938), a Romanian-US soprano
- Christoph Willibald Gluck, one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era
- Rita Buglass Gluck, US writer
- Richard Glücks, a high-ranking Nazi official
- Alexis Glick, a national television personality who was a temporary host for the third hour of NBC's Today Show in 2006
- Christien Glick, an aspiring high school writer.
- Deborah Glick, the Democratic New York State Assembly member for the 66th Assembly District (lower Manhattan)
- George Washington Glick, an American politician
- James Gleick, US author, journalist, and biographer, best known for Chaos: Making a New Science
- Jeremy Glick (author), an author and activist whose father, Barry H. Glick, perished in the September 11, 2001 attack
- Jeremy Glick (September 11 attack victim), a man who died in the September 11, 2001 attack and who fought back against the terrorists on United Airlines Flight 93
- Jiminy Glick, a fictional character portrayed by Martin Short in the TV series Primetime Glick (2001-2003)
- John Glick, a songwriter, singer, and guitarist for the Chicago power pop band The Returnables
- Larry Glick, a Boston radio talk show host
- Robert Glick, the Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
- Srul Irving Glick, composer, radio producer, conductor, teacher
- Stacey Glick, a former child actress
- Max Gluckman (1911-1975), a South African social anthropologist
- Dan Glickman (born 1944), an American politician
- Alan Jay Glueckman (born 1944) screenwriter/producer/playwright/lyricist and Chairman/President, eJamming, Inc
- Marty Glickman (1917 - 2001), an American track and field athlete and sports announcer
- Daniel Gluckstein (born 1953), French far-left Trotskyist politician
- Shlomo Glickstein, Israeli athlete
- Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a line of the House of Oldenburg, to which the royal houses of Denmark, Norway, and the former royal house of Greece belong