Pfefferkorn

Pfefferkorn
Family name

Meaning	German: Pfeffer "pepper" + korn "corn", "peppercorn"
Region of origin	Germany, Czech Republic, Poland
Language(s) of origin	German
Related names	Pfeffer (Fefer, Feffer), Peffer, Pepper, Peppers, Pfeffermann (Feferman), Pfefferbaum (Feferboym), Pfefferberg, Pfefferblatt, Pfefferblüth (Feferblit), Pfefferholz, Pfefferkuchen, Pfeffermann, Pfefferstein; Korn, Körner (Koerner, Korner), Kornmann (Kornman, Kormann), Kornemann, Kornbaum, Kornberg, Kornblatt, Kornbluth, Kornblum, Kornfeld, Kornfein, Korngold, Kornhaber, Kornhäusel, Kornhauser, Kornhuber (e.g. Hans Helmut Kornhuber (de)), Kornmesser, Kornspann, Korntheuer (Korntheur, Theuerkorn); Haferkorn (de), Gerstenkorn (de), Firnkorn (Fernkorn (de); "old corn"), etc.
Footnotes: Alexander Beider "A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia"

Felix Pfefferkorn (de) (born 1945, Berlin), German painter
Gerhard Pfefferkorn (de) (1913, Jugowice - 1989), German physicist
Ignaz Pfefferkorn (de) S. J. (1726, Mannheim - after 1795), German Jesuit, missionary and natural scientist
Johannes Pfefferkorn (1469, Moravia or Nürnberg - c. 1523), German Antisemitic writer of Jewish descent
Peter Pfefferkorn (de) (16th century)
Roland Pfefferkorn (de), a French (Alsatian) sociologist

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