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Kolbe

Kolbe is a surname.

Those bearing it include:

  • Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist
  • Caroline Ridderstolpe, née Kolbe (1793–1878), Swedish composer and singer
  • Fritz Kolbe (1900–1971), German diplomat and World War II Allied spy
  • Georg Kolbe (1877–1947), German sculptor
  • Heinrich Christoph Kolbe (1771–1836), German painter
  • Hermann Julius Kolbe (1855–1939), German entomologist
  • Jim Kolbe (born 1942), American politician
  • Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941), Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and saint
  • Parke Kolbe (1881–1942), American author, teacher, administrator and university president
  • Peter-Michael Kolbe (born 1953), German rower and five time world champion
  • Tanja Kolbe (born 1990), German ice dancer
  • Winrich Kolbe (1940–2012), German-born American television director and producer

Usage examples of "kolbe".

One thinks of the Polish mystic, Father Maximilian Kolbe, a saintly figure who died under the Nazis at Auschwitz.

Although emaciated and a longtime sufferer from tuberculosis, Kolbe gave away most of his meager rations to other prisoners.