Mommsen Explained

Mommsen
Meaning:	son of "Mommo, Momme"
Region:	Northern Germany
Language origin:	Low German
Variant:	1. Momber, Momper, Mommer2. Mombert, Mompert, Mommert, Mommertz; Munibert

Mommsen is a surname, and may refer to one of a family of German historians, see Mommsen family:

• Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), historian known for arguing a functionalist explanation of the Holocaust
• Norlin Mommsen (born 1957), American politician
• Preston Mommsen (born 1987), South African-born Scottish cricketer
• Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), classical scholar, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Wolfgang Mommsen (1930–2004), historian of 19th- and 20th-century Britain and Germany

See also

• Momsen (especially Charles Momsen)