Mommsen
| Mommsen | |
|---|---|
| Family name | |
| Meaning | son of "Mommo, Momme" |
| Region of origin | Northern Germany |
| Language(s) of origin | Low German |
| Related names |
1. Momber, Momper, Mommer 2. Mombert, Mompert, Mommert, Mommertz; Munibert |
Mommsen is a surname, and may refer to one of a family of German historians, see Mommsen family:
- Theodor Mommsen (1817 – 1903), classical scholar, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Hans Mommsen (1930 – 2015), historian known for arguing a functionalist explanation of the Holocaust
- Wolfgang Mommsen (1930 – 2004), historian of 19th- and 20th-century Britain and Germany
- Tycho Mommsen (1819 – 1900)
- Wilhelm Mommsen (1892 – 1966)
- Theodor Ernst Mommsen (1905 – 1958)
See also
- Momsen (especially Charles Momsen)
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