Hornberg History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Germany

Early Origins of the Hornberg family

The surname Hornberg was first found in Austria, where this family name became a prominent contributor to the development of the district from ancient times. Always prominent in social affairs, the family name became an integral part of that turbulent region as it emerged to form alliances with other families within the Feudal System and the nation. The name is a compound name derived from the Old High German words "horn" and "berg," and has several derivations. Horn was used as an occupational name for someone who made small articles from horn, or a musician who played a horn. It was also a topographic name referring to a horn-shaped hill; "berg" also refers to a hill. Many have also adopted this name as a habitation name for one of the several places in Germany so-named.

Early History of the Hornberg family

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Hornberg Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Hornberg, Hornberger, Hornburg, Hornburgh and others.

Early Notables of the Hornberg family

members of the Baron Hornberg family of Austria

Hornberg migration to the United States +

Hornberg Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

John Henry Hornberg, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1796 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Hornberg (post 1700) +

Robert Hornberg, American Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Mesa Airlines Inc
Alexander Hornberg Ph.D. (b. 1961), German Professor of optics engineering and machine vision at the University of Applied Sciences of Esslingen

Sources +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)