Re: Schoeffe I

> Moreover, this "assistant to a village headman" is exactly the
> primeval Slavic-German meaning of the Schoppe/Schuppe/Saupe/Schöffe!
> (In medieval German-speaking villages, a 'village headman' was
> the Vogt or the Schultheiss, in short: Schulz(e) & (in South-
> German lands) Scholz. I assume, in Polish it is spelt szoltys.)
> ***R The Polish lastname Szulc is relatively common in the US
>

Szulc looks like a raw Polish transliteration of the German name Schulz/Schultze etc.
The Hungarian George Solti's last name seems to be a relative; is there a cognate appellative in Hungarian?


Torsten