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Well, Daniel Stone, a professor of history, has chosen to translate "Schoppenmeister" non-literally as "mayor" for the benefit of English readers and I've followed this practice. The sources you give are all in German. Anyway, to avoid a pointless dispute, how about "Alderman"?
VolunteerMarek18:07, 2 August 2012 (UTC)reply
A fact from Hieronymus Roth appeared on Wikipedia's
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Well, Daniel Stone, a professor of history, has chosen to translate "Schoppenmeister" non-literally as "mayor" for the benefit of English readers and I've followed this practice. The sources you give are all in German. Anyway, to avoid a pointless dispute, how about "Alderman"?
VolunteerMarek18:07, 2 August 2012 (UTC)reply