Heim

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

Geography

• Heim, Norway is a village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county.

See also

• Heim theory
• Chayyim