Talk:Lewandowski

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The Lewandowski brothers were royal court merchants to the Bavarian court for lingerie (inherited from Bruno and David Lewandowski), with branches in Berlin, Amsterdam and Munich. The address book of Munich in 1917 (can be checked in Munich historical library) states them as court merchants (Hoflieferant) of her Majesty Queen Maria Therese of Bavaria, Mrs. Princess Adalbert of Bavaria, Mrs. Princess Ludwig Ferdinand and of Infanta Eulalia of Spain. The business did not have the status of royal merchant of the king, the highest honour as royal merchant of the king himself due to the nature of lingerie being a female clothing item. The business, later owned by Gerhard and Alfred Lewandowski (now buried in Munich), was taken over by the Nazis, due to the Jewish background of the Lewandowskis. One small shop still remains to this day on Sendlingerstr. 62 in Munich, however it is not owned by any family member, nor does it produce the original Lewandowski lingerie. Currently investigations are being made regarding a Josef Albers picture in Guggenheim Museum which depicts a Mrs Lewandowski from Munich, 1930, and is believed to be the wife of one of the brothers. During the Hitler years Max Lewandowski fled to Chile, Gerhard fled to and hid near Appeldoorn, Holland, and Alfred, in spite of his Jewish family background managed to pass as German and joined Rommel's troops).

The following article paragraph needs serious research or re-thinking. The English word lavender translates to polish 'lawenda', while the prefix for the name Lewandowski or 'Lew', means Lion in Polish, in the same way that Lion in German is 'Lowe' (pronounced loova) as used in the name Lowenbrau (lions brew). The polish word 'lew' (lion) is not the same as 'law' in 'lawenda' (lavender). The names Lewandowski and Lawandowski are not related. Also note there is no letter 'v' in Polish, one uses the 'w' which sounds like the 'v' (same as in German).

"It is derived from the place name Lewandów, itself derived from the Old Polish word lewanda – 'lavender' (lawenda in modern Polish).[2] It is most frequent in mid-northern Poland, making up as much as 1,1% of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship's population (the record of Poland). The surname was recorded for the first time in 1673, although Lavendowski"

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Hebrew (Levant) etymology of this surname
Hi guys, why there is nothing written about (quite high) propability for this surname having actually Jewish roots, as being related to the word Levant [|Levant] ? Even without any knowledge of linguistics one can se the similarity of Levant and Levant-ovsky (that's how it is pronounced: levantovsky; eng. V = polish W, t/d sound alike and the rest is basically the same)

It is showed as one of the possible etymologies for this surname on the polish version of this article.

In my opinion is worth noting it, since this surname used to be (and still is to some extent) quite frequently carried by Polish Jews (but not exclusively of course), like for example [|Louis Lewandowski]. Also on couple of websites about Jewish heritage one can find such informations or just informations about specific Jewish households/families.

Someone could add this information as well as prehaps list of known Jews of this surname.

Regards, Gerszon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.190.169.73 (talk) 15:15, 23 July 2018 (UTC)