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Husung is a Middle High German family name.
Origin and meaning
Husung can be derived from the Low German family name Hüsing . The meaning of the name can be translated into standard German as "dwelling". The oldest known bearers of the name come from the 17th century from the Harz regions in northern Thuringia, southern Saxony-Anhalt and eastern Lower Saxony. This is where the family name occurs most frequently in Germany even today. The name is particularly well represented in the Nordhausen area .
Name bearer
- Ferdinand Husung (1879–1962), Member of the Bremen Parliament (SPD)
- Hans-Gerhard Husung (* 1950), German political official (SPD), General Secretary of the Joint Science Conference (GWK)
- Max Joseph Husung (1882–1944), German philologist and medieval binding researcher
Individual evidence
- ^ German dictionary of names by Hans Bahlow