What is "mommsen"

Mommsen is a surname, and may refer to one of a family of German historians, see Mommsen family:

• Theodor Mommsen (1817 – 1903), classical scholar, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Hans Mommsen (born 1930), historian known for arguing a functionalist explanation of the Holocaust
• Wolfgang Mommsen (1930 – 2004), historian of 19th- and 20th-century Britain and Germany
• Tycho Mommsen (1819 – 1900)
• Wilhelm Mommsen (1892 – 1966)
• Theodor Ernst Mommsen (1905 – 1958)