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In German personal names, von is a preposition which approximately means 'of' or 'from' and usually denotes some sort of nobility.While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by their last name, use Schiller, Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.
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Achim von Arnim, German poet, novelist and a leading figure of German Romanticism; Bettina von Arnim, German writer and novelist; Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, post-romanticist poet and writer; Thomas Bernhard, Austrian novelist, playwright and poet; Hayim Nahman Bialik, Jewish poet; Arrigo Boito, Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and ...
The preposition von ("of") was used to distinguish nobility; for example, if someone was baron of the village of Veltheim, his family name would be von Veltheim. In modern times, people who were elevated to nobility often had a 'von' added to their name. For example, Johann Wolfgang Goethe had his name changed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
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In medieval or early modern names, the von particle was at times added to commoners' names; thus, Hans von Duisburg meant ' Hans from [the city of] Duisburg '. This meaning is preserved in Swiss toponymic surnames and in the Dutch van , which is a cognate of von but also does not necessarily indicate nobility.
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