Brief Life History of Salome
When Salome Toebeli was born on 31 March 1753, in Aargau, Switzerland, her father, Hans Rudolf Toebeli, was 39 and her mother, Anna Maria Bertschi, was 34. She died on 21 September 1756, at the age of 3.
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form of an unrecorded Aramaic name, akin to the Hebrew word shalom ‘peace’. It was common at the time of Christ, and was borne by one of the women who were at his tomb and witnessed the Resurrection (Mark 16:1–8). This would normally have led to its common use as a Christian name, and it is indeed found as such in medieval times. However, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, it was also the name of King Herod's stepdaughter, the daughter of Queen Herodias. In the Bible, a daughter of Herodias, generally identified as this Salome, danced for Herod and so pleased him that he offered to give her anything she wanted. Prompted by her mother, she asked for (and got) the head of John the Baptist, who was in one of Herod's prisons (Mark 6:17–28). This story so gripped medieval imagination that the name Salome became more or less taboo until the end of the 19th century, when Oscar Wilde wrote a play about her and some unconventional souls began to choose the name for their daughters.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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