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  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Professor (1742 - 1799)
    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he...
  • Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt
    Prinz von Anhalt (born as Hans Robert Lichtenberg - other sources state Hans-Georg Lichtenberg) is a German-born socialite. At the age of 37 he became the adopted son of Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhal...
  • Jettchen Juette Blach (1812 - 1895)
    Jette Lichtenberg, concerning her Death Certificate was the widow of Samuel Blach whom she married 1 December 1835. The death certficate for her son Isaak says his mother is Jettchen WESTHEIM.

About the Lichtenberg surname

So weit ich erfahren habe kommt der Name von "Lichte" und "Berg". "Lichte" ist eine Stelle im Wald auf der keine Bäume stehen und damit "lichte" ist. Daher gehe ich davon aus, dass die ursprünglichen Lichtenbergs auf einem kahlem Berg ohne Bäume gewohnt haben einem "Lichten" "Berg".