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From: deb5@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Help wanted with origin of name
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In article <811619333snz@elfarran.demon.co.uk>,
Arthur Morgan  <Arthur@elfarran.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Can anyone help me with the origin of a name?
>
>It's DREXEL, and occurs in a novel by Gene Wolfe (*Pandora by 
>Holly Hollander*) which I'm reseaching.  His names invariably 
>contain an important allusion, and I simply can't find anything 
>on this one.  He uses it as a first name: Drexel K Munroe.  (The 
>Munroe bit alludes to a symbolic pattern of rivers and a pun on 
>peace and war, so you can see why I need to track down Drexel.)

	There must have been a prominent Chicagoan with the name
"Drexel" at one time because a street on the South Side bears his
name.  The best I can suggest in terms of an etymology is some
connexion to Drexler/Drechsler, a German surname meaning "turner"
(i.e. someone who operates a lathe, from OHG drahsil "turner").

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