Winternitz can be a: Place name German name of Vintířov, now an "obec" (district) of Radonice. Surname Winternitz is a surname of Jewish pedigree originated from Vintířov. Adolfo Winternitz, also Adolf Gustav Winternitz (1906–1993), Austrian-Peruvian Jewish painter (1893–1961), British mathematician Emanuel Winternitz (1898-1983) curator emeritus of the Department of Musical Instruments of the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art; musicologist, "father of the field of musical iconography" (1882-1971), Austrian author, first wife of Stefan Zweig Helen Winternitz, contemporary writer (1868-1934), Austrian and German physician (1896-1952), Marxist politician, economist Judith Winternitz, Australian writer (1880-1958), Austrian female singer Moriz Winternitz (1863-1937), Austrian Jewish indologist Moshe Dovid Winternitz (1855-1944), Head of the Beth din Rabbinical Court in Satmar, Hungary; killed in Auschwitz concentration camp Pavel Winternitz (born 1936), Czechoslovakian and Canadian mathematical physicist (1861–1929), German painter Roland Winters, born Roland Winternitz (1904-1989), American actor Wilhelm Winternitz, (1834–1917), Austrian balneologist Jewish families Czech Jews Surnames of Czech origin de:Winternitz