Heim
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The word Heim is the German equivalent of the English word home. It is a common German suffix in place names (cf. Mannheim). As a family name it may refer to the following people:
- Albert Heim (1849-1937), Swiss geologist
- Aribert Heim (b. 1914), an Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
- Arnold Heim (1882-1965), Swiss geologist
- Burkhard Heim (1925-2001), German physicist
- Ernst Ludwig Heim (1747-1834), German physician
- Ferdinand Heim (1897-1977), German general
- François Joseph Heim (1787-1865), French painter
- Georg Heim (1865-1938), Bavarian politician and founder of the Bayerischen Volkspartei (BVP)
- Ignaz Heim (1818-1880), Swiss musician and choir director
- Irene Heim, linguist, specialist in semantics
- Joseph C. Heim, Ph.D., professor of history and political science at California University of Pennsylvania
- Karl Heim (1820-1895), former mayor of Ulm, Germany
- Karl Heim (1874-1958), German theologian
- Marie Heim-Vögtlin (1845-1916), first female physician in Switzerland
- Rory Heim (b. 1990) American Baller
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[edit] Geography
- Heim, Norway is a village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county.