Submitted Surname Revision History

Italian surname of Jewish origin, originally Marpurg, from the Austrian city Marburg an der Drau (today Maribor in Slovenia). The progenitor was Moises Jacob, father of Petachia, in Bad-Rackersburg, Austria. Petachia (1355-1460) had three sons who died in Maribor. Their subsequent multinational progeny took the surnames Maribor, Marburg, Marpurg, Morpurgo, Marlborough and Murphy. A literary bearer of this surname was the Jewish-Italian poet Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo (1790-1871).