People
Any place called Altenberg may have given rise to Altenberg as a family name, such as:
- Jakob Altenberg (1875-1944), Austrian businessman
- Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), Austrian writer and poet
- Theo Altenberg (b. 1952), German artist
- Altenberg Publishing (1880-1934), a family business in Poland
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