Wurmbrand

Wurmbrand

Origin
Language(s)	German
Meaning	"worm/dragon - fire" (Jewish surname) Yiddish dialect of "Warmbrand" warm - fire
Region of origin	Germany, Poland
Other names
Variant form(s)	Wurm, Lindwurm; Wurmer, Wurmberg, Wurmann (Wurman) Warm, Warmer, Wärmer, Warmberg (or may Wahrenberg), Warmann (or may Wahrmann) Drach, Drache, Drachmann

Wurmbrand is surname of:

• Count Wurmbrand-Stuppach, an old noble family of Austria

• Melchior Freiherr von Wurmbrand(-Stuppach) (1475 - 1553), businessman and military man[1]
• Johann Wilhelm Graf von Wurmbrand (1670 - 1750), statesman and historian
• Adelma Vay, née Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1840, Ternopil - 1925, Gonobitz (now Slovene: Slovenske Konjice), Styria)
• Countess Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1849 - 1919), a Hungarian pianist and composer
• Countess Maria Anna Paula Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1914, Vienna - 2003)

• Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001), Romanian evangelical Christian minister, author

See also

• also Wurmbrand is a Katastralgemeinde in Lower Austria[2]
• Stuppach

References

1. http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p4245.htm, http://gw4.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=pierfit&lang=de;p=marghareta;n=von+maltitz
2. de:Wurmbrand (Gemeinde Groß Gerungs)