When Elisabetha Margarethe Mertz was born in June 1706, in Frankenhausen, Dieburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse, her father, Johann Henrich Mertz, was 30 and her mother, Anna Margaretha Elisabetha Poth, was 25. She died in Germany.
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On Oct 19, 1813, Germany defeats Napolean. The commanding officer for the Allied side was Prince Karl Phillipp Schwarzenberg.
The Congress of Vienna established the German Confederation of 39 independent German states.
German: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Martin .
German: variant of Martz . This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Poland.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Merc: occupational name for a grain or salt measurer, from a vernacular form of merec ‘measurer’. Compare Merz .
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