What is "kugler"

Kugler is a German surname. It may refer to:

• Victor Kugler, also known as 'Mr Kraler', one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
• Franz Kugler
  • Franz Theodor Kugler (1808-1858), German writer and art historian
  • Franz Xaver Kugler (1862-1929), German chemist, mathematician, astronomer and Assyriologist for whom the Kugler crater on the Moon is named.
• Israel Kugler (1917-2007) American professor of sociology.
• Kugler Township, Minnesota
• Kugler (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Bernhard Kugler, German historian of the Crusades
• Richard Kugler, American writer
• Sean Kugler (b. 1966), American football coach

Kugler is a lunar crater that lies in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It is located just past the southeast limb of the Moon's surface, in the proximity of the libration zone that is occasionally brought into sight. The crater lies in the midpoint between the craters Anuchin to the north-northwest and Priestley to the south-southeast.

In the past the floor of this crater has been flooded by basaltic lava, leaving a dark (low albedo) surface that is level and nearly featureless. The surviving rim is low and heavily worn, with a number of old crater indentations along the edge. Attached to the western rim is the smaller Kugler U, an old, worn formation. To the south is the double-crater formation Kugler N, which has also been flooded by lava.