When Jakob Nussbaumer was born on 2 December 1767, in Péry, Péry-La Heutte, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Durs Nussbaumer, was 29 and his mother, Regina Sprunger, was 27. He married Rosina Oberli in 1789, in Bern, Switzerland. He died in January 1805, at the age of 37.
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Revolution in Switzerland. Farmers in occupied territories become free citizens. Centralistic parliamentary republic according to French model. Occupation by French troops and some battles of Napoleon vs. Austria and Russia in Switzerland.
Switzerland is one of the first industrialized countries in Europe.
Some characteristic forenames: German Christoph, Ernst, Gerhard, Inge, Klaus.
German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived by a nut tree (see Nussbaum ).
South German: habitational name for someone from any of several places called Nussbaum mostly in southern Germany, or for someone living at a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a nut tree (German Nussbaum) frequently found in larger German, Austrian, and Swiss cities.
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