Thread:Barruca/@comment-3406131-20130508193754/@comment-3406131-20130508230527

It's true that the angry peasants say "the Frankenstein", and himself said "his true name".

I had understood this in totally inverted way: that Maximilian was really named von Katzenelnbogen, descendant of Frankenstein but with an other name (because of the union of a Frankenstein female), and he only accepted the legacy of his family in the end in taking his ancestor name.

But the simpler way to understand it is seemingly the good one.