Auerbach

Auerbach, a German language generic toponym coming from Aue  + Bach, meaning "floodmeadow brook", can refer to:

Places

In Austria

• Auerbach, Upper Austria, a municipality in Bezirk Braunau am Inn

In Germany

• Auerbach, Erzgebirgskreis, in the Erzgebirgskreis district, Saxony
• Auerbach (Albtal), a part of Karlsbad in the Karlsruhe district
• Auerbach (Allgäu), a part of Stetten, Bavaria in the Unterallgäu district
• Auerbach (Bauland), a part of Elztal in the Neckar-Odenwald district
• Auerbach (Bensheim), a part of Bensheim in the Bergstraße district
• Auerbach (Horgau), a part of Horgau in the Augsburg district
• Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, in the Amberg-Sulzbach district
• Auerbach, Lower Bavaria, in the Deggendorf district
• Auerbach (Vogtland), in the Vogtlandkreis district, Saxony

Persons named Auerbach

• Arnold M. Auerbach (1912–1998), American screenwriter
• Auerbach (Jewish family), a family of scholars in the 16th to 18th century
• Ben Auerbach (1919–1993), American professional basketball player
• Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), German-Jewish writer
• Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German-Jewish geneticist
• Dan Auerbach (born 1956), American Director of Photography
• Dan Auerbach (born 1979), American-Jewish guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys
• Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), German-born American photographer
• Erich Auerbach (photographer) (1911–1977), Czech-Jewish photographer
• Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), German-Jewish philologist
• Frank Auerbach (born 1931), German-born British painter
• Heinrich Auerbach (ex. Heinrich Stromer) (1482–1542), physician and senator of Leipzig
• Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), Polish mathematician
• Larry Auerbach (born 1923), iconic American television director
• Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), German anatomist (see Auerbach's plexus below)
• Lera Auerbach (born 1973), Russian composer, pianist and poet.
• Meir Auerbach, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
• Oscar Auerbach (1905–1997), Jewish-American pathologist
• Red Auerbach (1917–2006), Boston Celtics coach and founder of the Red Auerbach Basketball School
• Rick Auerbach (born 1950), American baseball player
• Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, famous Jewish Rabbi from Jerusalem
• Sol Auerbach (1906-1986), American Communist historian better known as James S. Allen
• Stevanne Auerbach (born 1938), also known as Dr. Toy, American educator, child development expert, and writer
• Yuri Averbakh (born 1922), Russian chess grandmaster

Other

• Auerbach Castle, one of several dramatic castles along the Bergstraße in southern Hesse, Germany
• Auerbachs Keller, a historic restaurant in Leipzig, made famous by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust
• Auerbach's plexus, a plexus of sympathetic nerve fibers