Following the publication of the seven-volume "Atlas of German Family Names," which was directed at a scholarly audience, it is now time to make the most important, most interesting, and most surprising findings and insights available to a wider audience. This work of popular science deals extensively with the origins, distribution, and meanings of the most important family names using numerous color maps and illustrations.

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Damaris Nübling , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Konrad Kunze , University of Freiburg.