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Mommsen
Origin
Language(s)	Low German
Meaning	son of "Mommo, Momme"
Region of origin	Northern Germany
Other names
Variant form(s)	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

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