Brief Life History of Johann Jacob
Johann Jacob Schmidt was born on 6 November 1712, in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany as the son of Johann Caspar Schmidt and Anna Maria Hummel. He had at least 4 sons with Anna Sautter. He died on 27 April 1761, in Holland, Borgholzhausen, Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the age of 48.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).
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