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From: David Zincavage <>
Subject: [LITHUANIA-L] Fw: Kolwzan
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:55:54 -0700


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcin Rzemieniecki" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:36 PM
Subject: RE: Kolwzan


> Kowzan/Kolwzan, coat of arms Traby, is a name of noble family from
Oszmiana
> region.
>
> Please check this out, unfortunately in Polish.
>
> http://archiwum99.tripod.com/442/kowz.html
>
> Regards,
> Marcin Rzemieniecki.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Stevens [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:47 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: Kolwzan
>
>
> There are no Kolwzans presently living in the United States. In
> February of 1974 a Clementyna (Klementyna) Kolwzan died in New York. She
> was born Nov. 28, 1882. In 2000 Petr Kolvzan was(is?) the chief the
> Department of Treaties Realization for the St. Petersburg (then
> Leningrad) Military District. This surname does not seem to be of
> Slavic origin, but I have checked Turkic, Finnish, Romani, Lithuanian,
> Georgian, Armenian, and other dictionaries of eastern languages and find
> nothing similar. It may be a compound surname composed of "kol" and
> wzan." There are 4 people living in the US with the surname "Vzan." Two
> have the Hebrew first names "Avraham" and "Avner," however Beider lists
> neither "Kolwzan/Kolvzan" nor "Vzan" in his dictionaries of Russian and
> Polish Jewish surnames, but Beider's dictionaries are not absolutely and
> infalibly comprehensive. Could it be of Karaite origin? Perhaps the
> surname is from Hebrew "kol" ("all") and a contracted form of "bazbzan"
> ("worthless"), but this is pure speculation on my part. "Kolvzan" may
> represent some inflected form, for example, in Czech "vzan" means
> "taken," but this doesn't seem to work with "kol."
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