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Jüngling is a surname of German origin. It has been anglicized as Juengling, Jungling, Yuengling, and Yungling, Yingling. Branches of this family currently exist throughout Europe, mostly concentrated in Germany, and in the United States.

The name Jüngling is translated in English as "youth". As Peter N. Stearns writes in the Encyclopedia of Social History, "Linguistic designations for preindustrial youth were class and gender specific. In Germany, for example, adults used separate designations for upper-class boys (Jüngling) and girls (Jüngfrau). Jungling implied a romantic image of youthful innocence, idealism, and vulnerability."^[1]

In German use, Jüngling a young man, who is no longer a boy, but not yet grown up. In ancient Greece, the term Epheb was used for this purpose. The term differs in the rating of words such as boy, adolescent or half-strong (half-able) and older expression like jack. The word is also associated with meaning to be a young pure and flawless youth. Until the 19th century, the youth was the male equivalent of the non-sexually active virgin. In Japanese, the term "dōtei" is used to this day. Young people's associations have been founded to express virginity.

In fine arts, including in literature and paintings, the Jüngling youth is iconographically portrayed as beardless (in Greek kouros now in the English lexicon).

Also writing about noble youth, Der Jüngling is a German didactic poem by Konrad von Haslau written in 1270. It provides 1264 lines of instructions for young noblemen "that emphasized the more superficial aspects of proper behavior."^[2]

Notable persons with this surname include:

• Johan Jüngling, Swedish former squash player
• Max Jüngling, German politician

• Dietrich Juengling, American lighting director
• Frederick Juengling (1846–1889) (born Friedrich Jüngling), American wood engraver and painter
• Konrad Juengling, German-American LGBT activist

Yuengling, or D. G. Yuengling & Son, the oldest operating American brewing company established in 1829.

Yuengling beer family:

• David Yuengling (1808–1877), American businessman and brewer, the founder and first president of America's oldest brewery, D. G. Yuengling & Son
• Frederick Yuengling (1848–1899), American businessman and second president and owner of America's oldest brewery, D. G. Yuengling & Son
• Richard Yuengling Sr. (1915–1999), American businessman, the president and owner of the Pottsville, Pennsylvania brewer, Yuengling
• Richard "Dick" Yuengling Jr. (born 1943) American billionaire businessman, the president and sole owner of the Pottsville, Pennsylvania brewer, Yuengling

Associated with the Yuengling beer family:

• Frank D. Yuengling Mansion, a historic home located at Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania built in 1913
• Yuengling Beer, an American East-coast beer originally made by David Yuengling
• Yuengling Bicentennial Park and Gardens, a city park located in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, United States
• Yuengling Center, formerly known as the USF Sun Dome, a multi-purpose facility on the campus of the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida

• Gesang der Jünglinge (literally "Song of the Youths"), the electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen
• The Vienna Jüngling statue, called The Youth of Magdalensberg in English