Where Does This Last Name Come From? German?

Question:My teacher has a cool last name, it's Glasenapp, he said it was german, so I was just wondering where it came from. All my other teachers have last names like smith, white, ect. lol

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My teacher has a cool last name, it's Glasenapp, he said it was german, so I was just wondering where it came from. All my other teachers have last names like smith, white, ect. lol

When I looked over at Ancestry, it states the name is from Germany, Pruessen, and Pomeranian in origin. As for the meaning... I couldn't find anything on Glase, so I tried napp and got the following:
1. Altered spelling of German Knapp.
2. German: metonymic occupational name for a bowl and cup maker, from Middle Low German nap ‘bowl’, ‘mug’, or alternatively, from an old personal name formed with an element cognate with Old High German (gi-)nada ‘grace’,
‘benevolence’.
The meaning of knapp in German:
1. German: occupational name or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant’, ‘apprentice’, or ‘miner’.
2. German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person.
3. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hillock, Middle English knappe, Old English cn?pp, or habitational name from any of the several minor places named with the word, in particular Knapp in Hampshire and Knepp in Sussex.
4. German and western Slavic: variant of Knabe.

Glas: glas

1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Glass.
2. German: variant of Glass 1 or 3.
3. German: from a short form of the medieval personal name Gelasius, the name of a pope (492–96).
4. Welsh: nickname meaning ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘silver-haired’.

glass

1. English and German: metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower, from Old English gl?s ‘glass’ (akin to Glad, referring originally to the bright shine of the material), Middle High German glas.
2. Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of the epithet glas ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘blue’ or any of various Gaelic surnames derived from it.
3. German: altered form of the personal name Klass, a reduced form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas).
4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Glass ‘glass’, or a metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower.

yeh. it definetly sounds like a german last name. i've studied german since grade 5 nd i'm 16 now.

so it definetly sounds german :)

I would be willing to put $100 down that it is GERMAN. Family names ending with the double "p" are most likely German - like the name Knopp, Krupp, etc.

It is a German last name. It was the last name of my neighbor in Bavaria, I'm 100% sure it's German.

Es ist Deutsch!

It is German, I looked it up, could not find meaning.

Von Glasenapp is the name of a former aristocratic estate owner family in Pomerania. I have found a long article on Wikipedia about them, but unfortunately there is no English translation available.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasenapp
As the name is existing since the 13th century, before surnames were usual, and there are many people called Glasenapp today, it might have been given (without "von") to farmers, and personnel of the estate, too.