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ArchivesRe: Gumpert/Gumpricht
in reply to a message by Mrs Claire
I found something on Wikipedia:
In Germany the tendency to adopt Christian names was perhaps most marked, such names as Bernhard, Bero, Eberhard, Falk, Gumprecht, Knoblauch, Liebreich, Manz and Mans which both constitute the Alemannic/Swabian short form of the personal name Mangold, Süsskind, Weiss, and Wolf being among those noticed in the early Middle Ages. Especially popular were compounds with -mann or -man, as Feldmann, Kaufmann, Lieberman, Lipman, and Seligman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_name
In Germany the tendency to adopt Christian names was perhaps most marked, such names as Bernhard, Bero, Eberhard, Falk, Gumprecht, Knoblauch, Liebreich, Manz and Mans which both constitute the Alemannic/Swabian short form of the personal name Mangold, Süsskind, Weiss, and Wolf being among those noticed in the early Middle Ages. Especially popular were compounds with -mann or -man, as Feldmann, Kaufmann, Lieberman, Lipman, and Seligman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_name
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