Wert

Wert is a Flemish or American surname, and may refer to:

  • Don Wert (born 1938), American former third baseman in Major League Baseball
  • Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy
  • J. Howard Wert (19th century), American author and collector
  • Jeffry D. Wert (21st century), American historian and author
  • José Ignacio Wert (21st century), Spanish sociologist and politician, current Minister of Education.
  • Ray Wert (21st century), American online publication editor
  • WERT a commercial AM radio station in Van Wert, Ohio
  • wert, a past subjunctive form of to be formerly used with the pronoun thou

Famous quotes containing the word wert:

    “Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
    Who loved thee so fondly as he?
    He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
    And joined in thy innocent glee.”
    —Margaret Courtney (1822–1862)

    “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
    With thy green mother in some shady grove,
    When immelodious winds but made thee move,
    And birds their ramage did on thee bestow.”
    —William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585–1649)

    “O wert thou in the cauld blast,
    On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
    My plaidie to the angry airt,
    I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)