Courvoisier (surname) - Misplaced Pages

The surname Courvoisier or de Courvoisier is in origin a French word, meaning 'shoemaker'. The word comes from Old French courveis ('leather') which itself comes from the Latin word Cordubense meaning 'from Cordova', originally referring to a kind of leather associated with that city.

The name may refer to:

Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843–1918), a Swiss surgeon
Walter Courvoisier, Swiss composer, son of Ludwig Georg Courvoisier
Fritz Courvoisier, Swiss watchmaker, military and political figure
Leopold Courvoisier, Swiss astronomer
Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier, French magistrate and politician
René Courvoisier, Swiss field hockey player
François Benjamin Courvoisier (d.1840), valet and murderer of Lord William Russell
Sylvie Courvoisier, Swiss composer and musician

References

"corviser | corvisor, n.", Oxford English Dictionary Online, 1st edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press), accessed 29 June 2020.

v t e Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler / shoemaker / cordwainer
Celtic	Quéré Gracie, Grassie, Grassick
Germanic	DeSutter/De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter Scheemaeckers, Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schuhmann, Schumaker, Schoemaker, Schoeman, Schoomaker, Schuster, Shoemark, Schumann, Shumaker, Shoemaker,Shuster, Shuman, Shumann, Stiefel, Stiefl, Stifel
Romance	Surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar Sutor De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Callegari, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corvaisier, Le Sueur, Sabaté , Sabater Sabatier Crispino Sapateiro, Zapatero borrowings from Slavic: Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu
Slavic	Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko Cizmar/Čizmar/Čižmár/Čižman Łatacz Sapozhnikov Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk Šuštar (from Schuster) Szydło Kopitar
Other	from סנדלר; "sandal-maker": HaSandlar, Sandler / Sendler, Skujenieks Suutari Kingsepp Varga Csizmadia

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