Wolfsohn
Wolfsohn, Wolffsohn, Wolfssohn, Wolffssohn:
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Family name |
| Pronunciation |
[volfzo:n] |
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| Meaning |
son of Wolff (Wolf) |
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| Language(s) of origin |
German, Jewish (Yiddish) |
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| Related names |
Wolfsohn, Wolfssohn, Wolffssohn; Wolfson, Wolffson, Wolfsson, Wolffsson; Wolfowitz, Wolfskin; Ze'ev, Ze'evi |
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Footnotes: |
- Wolffsohn's Viscacha (Lagidium wolffsohni), named after J. A. Wolffsohn
- Wolffsohn's Leaf-eared Mouse (Phyllotis wolffsohni)
Family names
Wolfenson
- (Moises Wolfenson) (born 1946,Recife-) a Jewish Brazilian plastic surgeon
Wolfsohn
- Wilhelm Wolfsohn (1820, Odessa - 1865), a Jewish Ukrainian-German writer (de)
- Juliusz Wolfsohn (1880, Warsaw - 1944), a Jewish Polish-Russian pianist, composer (de)
- Alfred Wolfsohn (1896, Berlin - 1962), a German singing teacher
- Ken Wolfsohn
Wolffsohn
- David Wolffsohn (1856, western Lithuania - 1914), a Jewish Lithuanian-German businessman and Zionist activist
- Karl Wolffsohn (1881–1957), Jewish publisher, businessman, film pioneer
- Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947, Tel Aviv), an Israeli-German historian
Wolfssohn
- Aaron (Halle-)Wolfssohn (1754–1835), a Jewish German translator and commentator of the Tanakh
- Sigmund Wolfssohn (1767–1852), mechanic engineer