Seeger is the surname of various people.

Seeger
Origin
Language(s)Middle English
Other names
Variant form(s)Seagar

Etymology edit

Seeger is one of the variant forms of Seagar, a surname of Middle English origin based on the given name Segar, which was formed from Old English ("sea") and gar ("spear").[1]

Seeger family of musicians edit

(i) Constance Edson Seeger, violinist; first wife of Charles; three children
  • Charles Seeger III, (1912–2002) astronomer
  • John Seeger, (1914–2010), high school principal and co-founder of Camp Killooleet, a summer camp in Vermont
  • Pete Seeger (1919–2014), one of the preeminent American folk and protest singers of the 20th century
() Toshi Seeger (1922–2013), filmmaker and environmental activist, wife of Pete Seeger; 4 children
  • Peter Seeger (1944–1945), died while Pete was deployed overseas[2]
  • Daniel Seeger[3]
  • Mika Seeger[3] American ceramic artist; daughter of Pete and Toshi Seeger
  • Tinya Seeger[3]
(ii) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist; second wife of Charles; 4 children
  • Mike Seeger (1933–2009), American folk musician and folklorist
  • Chris Arley Seeger (born 1961), technologist, broadcast engineer, mixer-editor; married to Laura Vaccaro Seeger, a children's book author-illustrator
  • Barbara Seeger, appeared on Animal Folk Songs for Children (1992) with Mike Seeger and others
  • Penny Seeger, married John Cohen

Others edit

Legal cases edit

"Seeger" may also reference either of two legal cases involving the individuals below:

Schools edit

See also edit

Object names

  • Seeger ring, alternative name for a circlip
  • The closest modern named object that corresponds to a seaspear is a harpoon.

References edit

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick & Hodges, Flavia (1988) The Oxford Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press; p. 556
  2. ^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156632394/peter-%C5%8Dta-seeger
  3. ^ a b c Bart Barnes, "Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94", The Washington Post, January 28, 2014