# Schober

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**Schober**, a German term for a small barn or a [haystack](/source/Haystack), is common as an [occupational surname](/source/Occupational_surname), [metonymic](/source/Metonymic) for a farmer,[1] and as a name for haystack-shaped mountains.

## People named Schober

- [Aurelia Frances Schober](/source/Aurelia_Frances_Schober) (1906–1994), mother of the poet Sylvia Plath
- [Barbara Schober](/source/Barbara_Schober) (born 1958), German visual artist
- [Bernadette Schober](/source/Bernadette_Schober) (born 1984), Austrian racing cyclist
- [Franz von Schober](/source/Franz_von_Schober) (1796–1882), Austrian poet, librettist, lithographer, and actor
- [Johann Schober](/source/Johann_Schober) (1874–1932), three-time Chancellor of Austria
- [John C. Schober](/source/John_C._Schober) (born 1961), American politician and lawyer
- [Mathias Schober](/source/Mathias_Schober) (born 1976), German football goalkeeper
- [Michael Schober](/source/Michael_Schober) (born 1964), American psychologist
- [Olga Schoberová](/source/Olga_Schoberov%C3%A1) (born 1943), Czech actress
- [Paul Schober](/source/Paul_Schober) (1865–1943), German physician who developed [Schober's test](/source/Schober's_test)
- [Rita Schober](/source/Rita_Schober) (1918–2012), German scholar of [Romance studies](/source/Romance_studies) and [literature](/source/Literary_criticism) who championed [Emile Zola](/source/Emile_Zola) and organised [translations](/source/German_language) of his books.
- [Sonja Schöber](/source/Sonja_Sch%C3%B6ber) (born 1985), German swimmer
- [William Schober](/source/William_Schober) (born 1956), Australian figure skater
- [Wolfgang Schober](/source/Wolfgang_Schober) (born 1989), Austrian football goalkeeper

## Mountains

There are about 20 mountains, minor summits, and hills named "(great/high) haystack" in Austria alone.[2] Among these are:

- The [Hochschober](/source/Hochschober) (3,242 m), after which the [Schober Group](/source/Schober_Group) has been named.
- [Schober](/source/Schober_(Ankogel_Group)) (2,967 m) in the [Ankogel Group](/source/Ankogel_Group) in [Carinthia](/source/Carinthia_(state))
- [Schober](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schober_(Salzkammergut)) (1,328 m) on the border of [Upper Austria](/source/Upper_Austria) and [Salzburg](/source/Salzburg_(state))
- The [Schober Pass](/source/Schober_Pass) (849 m) in the [Niedere Tauern](/source/Niedere_Tauern) in [Styria](/source/Styria)

## Other

- [2871 Schober](/source/2871_Schober), an [asteroid](/source/Asteroid)

## References

1. [Schober](http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Schober) at the Internet Surname Database

1. [Austrian maps online](http://www.austrianmap.at/amap/index.php?SKN=1&XPX=637&YPX=492) by the [Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen](/source/Bundesamt_f%C3%BCr_Eich-_und_Vermessungswesen)

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