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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a teacher in a school or seminary, from Middle High German schuol(e) + meister ‘master’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a teacher in a Jewish school, from German Schulmeister ‘schoolmaster’.

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