Christoph Surname History

Christoph migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

John Christoph, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1852 1

J. B. Christoph, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1924 2
George W. Christoph (b. 1864), American Republican politician, Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives from East Windsor, 1919-20 2
Georg Christoph Biller (1955-2022), German choral conductor of the Thomanerchor from Nebra, Bezirk Halle, Germany (1992-2015), the 16th Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785-1860), German historian and politician
Johann Christoph Glaubitz (1700-1767), German architect, generally considered to be the most prominent Baroque architect of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Johann Christoph Wendland (1755-1828), German botanist and gardener
Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808-1883), German entomologist
Gottlieb Christoph Harless (1738-1815), German classical scholar and bibliographer
Johann Christoph Fugger (1561-1612), German businessman and the last famous survivor of the Fugger vom Reh branch of the Fugger family
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German 18th-century scientist, satirist and Anglophile, eponym of the Lichtenberg lunar crater

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 25) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html