Stigler

Stigler is a German noble family name.https://www.google.hu/books/edition/Erneuert_und_Vermehrtes_Wappen_Buchs_Vie/zAFFCcAYhfgC?hl=hu&gbpv=1&dq=stigler&pg=RA2-PA99&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.familia-austria.at/images/inhalte/presse/die_aeltesten_waldviertler_familiennamen_walter_pongratz.pdf 

Stigler History
The first noble of Stigler family:  Franciscus Joachimus Stigler, Nob. Saxo. ("Sächsische Adel": Maria II, Duchess of Saxony (Maria secunda Principum Saxoniae Mater, 1698).https://www.google.hu/books/edition/Maria_secunda_Principum_Saxoniae_Mater/f7NEAAAAcAAJ?hl=hu&gbpv=1&dq=stigler+schweiz&pg=PP8&printsec=frontcoverThe earliest occurrence in Germany is in the Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. (1781, Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern - p. 221) https://www.google.hu/books/edition/Hof_und_Staatshandbuch_des_K%C3%B6nigreichs/JA3sfjfPIiIC?hl=hu&gbpv=1&dq=stigler+name&pg=PA221&printsec=frontcoverThe Stigler family now lives in many countries around the world (Austria, Hungary, United States of America, Norway, Italy).

Coat of Arms of the Stigler Family

Book of Heraldry, renewed and enlarged, in German, p. 84 (Das erneuerte und vermehrte Teutsche Wappenbuch, 1657, Johann Siebmacher)https://www.google.hu/books/edition/Das_erneuerte_und_vermehrte_Teutsche_Wap/9n9gK3nDX40C?hl=hu&gbpv=1&dq=stigler&pg=PA84&printsec=frontcover

Famous people with the surname include:

 Franz Stigler (1915–2008), Luftwaffe pilot who escorted an American bomber back to safety in 1943
 George Stigler (1911–1991), Nobel Prize–winning U.S. economist, associated with the Stigler Commission and Stigler diet; father of Stephen Stigler
 William G. Stigler (1891–1952), American politician in Oklahoma

Other uses
 Stigler, Oklahoma, a city Haskell County
 Stigler Regional Airport, owned by the city of Stigler
 Stigler diet, an optimization problem regarding recommended dietary allowances (RDAs)


Interesting Facts
 Henriett Seth F. (b. Henrietta Fajcsák) is a blood descendant of the Stigler family.

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References

See also
 Maria secunda Principum Saxoniae Mater 
 Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern, 1871. 
 Kaiserlich-königlicher Schematismus des Erzherzogthums, 1825. 
 Walter, P. : Die ältesten Waldviertler Familiennamen, 1986.  

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