Talk:Beer (disambiguation)

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Beer as family name[edit]

Angelika Beer (born 1957), German politician (Alliance '90/The Greens)
August Beer (1825–1863), German mathematician, chemist and physicist
Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Yaakov Liebmann Beer), German composer, brother of Wilhelm Beer and writer Michael Beer
Joseph Beer (1908–1987), operetta composer
Joseph Beer (clarinetist) (1744–1811)
Klaus Beer, German track & field athlete
Michael Beer (poet) (1800–1833), German poet
Oliver Beer, German footballer
Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), Austrian writer
Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850), German banker and astronomer

It should be noted that Beer as a German family name has nothing to do with beer (German Bier).

The name Beer could either be linked with «Beere» (berry) or rather with «Bär» (or Baer, this is bear). The -ee- is pronounced as a long [e:] like /e/ in men. --Schwab7000 (talk) 13:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]