Zeng (family name)
Zeng is a family name documented in Thuringia since 1296.
origin
The name Zeng comes from Czenge or Cenge from the Middle High German language area, Thuringian. From this, the spelling Zengen, Zenge to Zeng developed from the late Middle Ages to around 1900.
distribution
Until the beginning of the 20th century, the spread of the family name Zeng or Zenge was primarily in northern and central Thuringia. Today the name extends to Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. The family name Zeng, derived in China from the character 曾, has no family relationship with the German.
variants
Those von Zenge or von Zengen are documented between 1450 and 1800.
Name bearer
- Heinrich Zenge, around 1465, bailiff of Sondershausen, judge of the Count of Schwarzburg
- August Wilhelm Hermann von Zenge (1736–1817), Prussian major general
- Wilhelmine von Zenge (1780–1852), fiancee to Heinrich von Kleist
- Georg Friedrich Adolph von Zeng (around 1800), chamberlain, chief forest and game master at the Saxon court
- Claus Zeng (* 1964), German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
Side note
- Zeng today Senj on the Adriatic Sea, was a town in Morlachia in southern Croatia (formerly Austria)
- Zenge was a unit of measurement in Westphalia
link
The individual references are available from the German Digital Library .
Individual evidence
- ^ Saxony-Anhalt State Archives: Copies of documents from the Anrode Monastery , made by Joh.Wolf 1814 / Magdeburg facility / Signature Cop., No. 1539e II
- ^ German digital library - culture and knowledge online. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Thuringian dialect
- ↑ Gotha Diplomatica from 1717, Friderich Rudolphi: Anderer Part Fürstlicher Sachsen-Gothaischen Historien Description
- ^ Thuringian State Archives: Hans Eberhardt: THE HISTORY OF THE AUTHORITIES ORGANIZATION IN SCHWARZBURG-SONDERSHAUSEN
- ↑ Saxon State Archives: 10006 Oberhofmarschallamt, No. L 04, No. Z03
- ↑ Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts