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FormatBook Whole
Author, MonographicBahlow, Hans
Title, MonographicDictionary of German Names
Edition or Version2nd ed.
Author/Subsidiary, or PerformerTranslated by Edda Gentry.
Place of PublicationMadison, Wisconsin
PublisherMax Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison
Date of Publication2002
Extent of Workxxxix, 579 pp., maps
Series TitleStudies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
ISBN0-924119-36-5
AbstractEnglish-language version of the 1967 publication "Deutsches Namenlexikon." "Namenlexikon" is recognized as Bahlow's most comprehensive and authoritative guide to surnames, with some 15,000 German names catalogued, and their etymological meanings clarified.
NotesDeutsches Namenlexikon. English. With an introduction by Henry Geitz. Paperback copy in Genealogy section
Call NumberMKI CS 2541 .B34 2002
MKI TermsDictionaries/ German Americans -- Genealogy/ Names, Personal -- German -- Dictionaries/ German language -- Etymology -- Names -- Dictionaries