Brief Life History of Johann Friedrich
When Johann Friedrich Hoffmann was born on 7 February 1808, in Galicia, Austria, his father, Michael Hoffmann, was 34 and his mother, Barbara Stern, was 31.
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Parents and Siblings
1774– Male
1777– Female
Siblings (4)
1799– Female
1803– Female
1805– Male
1808– Male
World Events (3)
1815
Age 7
1818
Age 10
1827
Age 19
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Gerhard, Hans, Heinz, Otto, Dieter, Klaus, Wolfgang, Armin, Manfred, Ernst, Erwin.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a steward on a farm or estate, from German Hof(f) ‘farm, manor farm, courtyard’ + Mann ‘man’. Originally, this was a status name for a farmer who owned his own land as opposed to holding it by rent or feudal obligation, but the name soon came to denote the manager or steward of a manor farm, in which sense it is frequent also among Jews, since many Jews held managerial positions on non-Jewish estates. This form of the surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Czechia, and the Netherlands. Compare Hofman , Hofmann , Homann , and Huffman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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