| ![Show Contents]() Horwitz History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
- Origins Available:
 Israel The prestigious Jewish surname Horwitz comes from Bohemia, which is now part of the Czech Republic. In the Middle Ages, people were often known by only one name. As they began moving closer together, it became necessary to adopt surnames, in order to better distinguish themselves from one another. There are a wide variety of hereditary surnames, and the surname Horwitz is a habitational name. It is taken from the place called Horovice, in Bohemia which is derived from the Slavic element, gora, which means hill. Horwitz RankingIn the United States, the name Horwitz is the 10,217th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1
 Horwitz migration to the United States | + |
Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Horwitz Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Sophia Horwitz, who arrived in New York, NY in 1850 2
- Moritz Horwitz, who landed in Arkansas in 1852 2
- Michaelis Horwitz, who arrived in Mississippi in 1853 2
- Kalman Horwitz, who landed in Arkansas in 1887 2
| Contemporary Notables of the name Horwitz (post 1700) | + |
- Steven Horwitz (1964-2021), American economist of the Austrian School, Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in the Department of Economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University
| Historic Events for the Horwitz family | + |
- Miss Mollie Horwitz (d. 1914), Belgian Third Class Passenger from Antwerp, Belgium who was traveling aboard the Empress of Ireland and died in the sinking 3
Triangle Waist Company - Miss Anna Horwitz, American worker who was at Triangle Waist Company factory at the Asch building in Greenwich Village on the 25th March 1911 when fire broke out; she survived the fire 4
- Miss Gussie Horwitz, American worker who was at Triangle Waist Company factory at the Asch building in Greenwich Village on the 25th March 1911 when fire broke out; she survived the fire 4
- "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
- 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)
- Commemoration Empress of Ireland 2014. (Retrieved 2014, June 17) . Retrieved from http://www.empress2014.ca/seclangen/listepsc1.html
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (retrieved on 3rd August 2021.) Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
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Horwitz migration to the United States 
