Koffka

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Koffka
Origin
Language(s)Yiddish, Slavic, German(ized)
Meaningfrom Jewish given name "Kovka (Kovke, Kofke)" Ya'aqov
Region of originGermany
Other names
Variant form(s)Kovka, Koffke, Kufka, Kuffka; Koftka
Koffke is a non-Jewish German surname mentioned in Eastern Germany
Similar forms:Kavka (Kafka, Kaffka, Kawka)
Kubka, Kupka (Western Slavic forms)
  • Kurt Koffka (1886, Berlin – 1941, Northampton, Massachusetts), Jewish German psychologist
  • Friedrich Koffka (1888, Berlin – 1951, London), German jurist, writer[1]
  • Felix Koffka, a fictional character in the Millarworld graphic novel Prodigy: The Icarus Society

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