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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Names"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Beste Ron,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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    • Billy Hahn (basketball coach)<br>
    • Dave Hahn (mountaineer and journalist)<br>
    • David Hahn (cartoonist)<br>
    • Erwin Hahn (physicist)<br>
    • Hilary Hahn (violinist)<br>
    • James K. Hahn (mayor of Los Angeles 2001-2005, Janice's brother)<br>
    • Janice Hahn (Los Angeles council member, James K.'s sister)<br>
    • Jessica Hahn (celebrity, nude model, and church secretary, of Clinton infamy)<br>
    • Kenneth (Kenny) Hahn (member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, not related to James K. and Janice)<br>
    • Kimberly Hahn (Catholic author and apologist, married to Scott)<br>
    • Scott Hahn (convert Catholic author and apologist, married to Kimberly)<br>
Non-Americans with which many Americans are familiar:<br>
    • Carl Wilhelm Hahn (German zoologist)<br>
    • Hans Hahn (Austrian mathematician)<br>
    • Hans "Assi" Hahn (German WW II master pilot)<br>
    • Otto Hahn (chemist, Nobel Prize winner)<br>
    • Philipp Matth√§us Hahn (German priest and inventor)<br>
    • Reynaldo Hahn (Venezuelan composer of Jewish-German and Basque
descent, naturalized French citizen, lover of Marcel Proust [who once
said, "Everything I have ever done has always been thanks to
Reynaldo."])<br>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You forgot the most important one ;=).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Well...for me anyway:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Helena Petrovna Hahn, Елена Петровна Ган,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
better known as Madame Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Led one of the most fascinating lives that a woman has lived in the
19th century. Born in Dnepropetrovsk from a Russian mother, but her
father was Peter von Hahn, a nobleman from Basedow...yes, yes in
Mecklenburg Hanne ;=)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Even better, her first cousin on mother's side, was Prime Minister
during the reign of tsar Nicholas II...and went by the name of...hold
on...Sergei Witte. Yes folks, Witte. Needless to say that immediately I
got suspicious concerning his ancestry. And yes, this very Mr. Witte,
who was a count by the way and also main author of the October
Manifesto, sort of a draft for Russia's first constitution, was of
Dutch descent. Probably Flemish or Brabantish in my opinion, given the
final -e in his name, and the preponderance of "De Witte" and "Dewitte"
surnames in Flanders and Antwerp (compared to the Netherlands). His
father settled in the Baltic Provinces at a time when most settlers
there were German. It's said though that Sergei's family had a marked
bias against Germans and Baltic Germans in particular, and they never
wanted to be identified with them.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
One should not forget that in Antwerp and Flanders, in a very early
stage, Lutheran followers can already be found. Through the ages, they
faced tremendous hardship and as a result they always kept a low
profile, but even today some of those 16th century Lutheran communities
do still exist.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Back to Witte, the guy was a mathematician and apparently very shrewd.
Back in his day, he had his finger in every pie, some go as far as
saying that he had even become master of a state within the state and
therefore some thought he was part of a Jewish-Masonic
conspiracy...which was untrue:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Witte" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Witte</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Finally back to this grand lady, Madame Blavatsky. After travelling
half of the world, she started writing her magnum opus, "The Secret
Doctrine". A major part of it was written in Ostend (yes, yes Roland).
More about Blavatsky here:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blavatsky" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blavatsky</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Doesn't happen every day that I can mention Roland, Ron and Hanne in almost one breath *s*.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Kind greetings,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
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Luc Hellinckx, Halle</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc264.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Names<br><br>A fine piece of lowlandship there, Luc!<br><br>I knew of Madame Blavatsky but had no idea about her being another Hahn. Her German name was Helena von Hahn. A fascinating character indeed!<br><br>By the way, Witte and Witt (such as the figure skater Katarina Witt) are common names throughout Northern Germany. </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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