Altschuler, Altshuler, Altschuller (Russian: Альтшуллер), Altshuller (Russian: Альтшуллер), Altschueler, Altshueler, or Alschuler is a Jewish surname of Ashkenazi origin. It is derived from the Altschul, Old Synagogue in Prague.[1]
According to the tradition, the family surname was formed after 1302, when Jewish refugees from Hakhmei Provence settled down in Prague's Jewish Town in close socio-physical proximity to the Old Shul, thus forming the name.
Notable people with the surname include:
Altschuler
- Adi Altschuler (born 1986), Israeli educator
- David Altschuler (1687-1769), rabbi and Bible commentator
- Franz Altschuler (1923–2009), German artist and illustrator
- Glenn Altschuler, American writer and university-level educator and administrator
- John Altschuler (born 1963), American television and film producer and writer
- Modest Altschuler (1873–1963), Belarusian-American cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer
- Randy Altschuler (born 1970), American businessman and politician
- Samuel Altshuler (1864–1956) Washington state and California businessman
- Vladimir Altschuler (born 1946), Russian orchestral conductor
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Altshuler
- Alan Altshuler, American academic and government official, professor of urban policy and planning
- Boris Altshuler (born 1955), Russian-American physicist
- Lev Altshuler (1913–2003), Russian physicist, father of Boris
- David Altshuler (curator), American Judaic scholar and museum curator
- David Altshuler (physician), American clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist
- Herbert Altshuler, American major general
- Lori L. Altshuler, American scientist
- Mor Altshuler, Israeli scholar
- Semen Altshuler (1911–1983), Soviet physicist
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Altshuller
- Genrich Altshuller (1926–1998), Soviet engineer, inventor and scientist, journalist and writer
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