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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3320857" data-attributes="member: 24811">No, it is definitely the other way around.The name certainly starts with "Іо", Io / Yo / (if German) Jo, not "Ю", Yu.The Сибирская Старина article is titled "I am proud of my surname", and written by a Татьяна Иоганзен (Tatyana Johansen -- note the "modern" initial "И" in the surname here, instead of an "old-fashioned" "І"), daughter of Бодо Германович Иоганзен (Bodo Hermanovich Johansen), himself the younger son of Герман Эдуардович Иоганзен (Hermann Eduardovich Johansen). (I.e., she is Wolfgang's niece.) In the paper, she says her great-grandfather, Эдуард Фридрихович Иоганзен (Eduard Fridrikhovich Johansen) was a Lutherian pastor in Omsk, and came from a family that was of German and Swedish ancestry (despite the -sen rather than -son; p.6: "Мой прадед Эдуард Иоганзен, ведущий свой род из Германии и Швеции"). She also explains how her family was forced to abandon the German language, and went through a lot of problems, after Germany became Russia's enemy during WW1. It seems quite clear that the original name must have been "Johansen", which was then Russianized into "Іоганзен", to finally become "Иоганзен" after the spelling reforms.Not much to learn about Wolfgang himself, on the other hand. There is just a single phrase about him: "Его брат Вольфганг, подававший большие научные надежды и опубликовавший ряд статей по орнитологии, погиб на фронте в 1919 году;" (His [= her father's] brother Wolfgang, who gave great scientific hopes and published several articles on ornithology, was killed in action in 1919; ).</blockquote>

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