06-03-2010, 09:08 AM
...and ocassionally family-names here in Germany: e.g. Sartorius, Molitor and Prätorius ...... I presume that most of them stem from the times of the Renaissance when some folks (humanists /scholars/doctors ?) translated their old names into Latin to make a difference. 8)
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Siggi K.