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Type Surname (from location)
Usage German
Meaning & History
Denoted a person who lived in the capital of Uri canton in Switzerland or the municipality in Landshut, Bavaria, both derived from German alt "old" and Dorf "village" or Yiddish דאָרף (dorf) "village, countryside". A popular bearer of this surname was Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538), a German painter of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria.