When Gustav Heinrich Alt was born on 4 August 1853, in Gansberg, Quirl, Hirschberg, Silesia, Prussia, Germany, his father, Wilhelm Leberecht Alt, was 32 and his mother, Johanne Christiane Klose, was 28. He married Pauline Auguste Beer on 15 April 1877, in Buchwald, Hirschberg, Silesia, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 13 February 1932, in Quirl, Hirschberg, Silesia, Prussia, Germany, at the age of 78.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from alt ‘old’, typically applied as a distinguishing epithet to the older of two bearers of the same personal name. It is also found in some central European countries, for example in Czechia and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic surnames.
English (East Midlands): variant of Allt, possibly a shortened form of Allott, from the Middle English female personal name Alot (Old French Aalot), a pet form of Alice, see Allis .
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