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@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ N: Guido Volpi
 E: guido.volpi@pi.infn.it
 D: class TPie
 
-N: Eckhard von Thoerne
+N: Eckhard von Toerne
 E: evt@physik.uni-bonn.de
 D: author of the TMVA package