When Maria Carolina Weiss was born on 6 November 1835, in Akkerman, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, her father, Johann Gottfried Georg Weiß, was 34 and her mother, Eva Karolina Maria Salzsiedler, was 27. She lived in Russia in 1835. She died on 6 October 1838, in Alt Arzis, Artsyz, Odesa, Ukraine, Soviet Union, at the age of 2, and was buried in Artsyz, Akkerman, Bessarabia, Russian Empire.
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First Russian railroad, from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo, opens. Aleksandr Pushkin, foremost Russian writer, dies in duel.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Erwin, Hans, Gerhard, Fritz, Manfred, Egon, Armin, Arno, Gunther, Heinz. Jewish Chaim, Moshe, Emanuel, Aron, Meyer, Mendel, Hyman, Isadore, Zvi, Shlomo.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with white hair or a remarkably pale complexion, from Middle High German wīz, German weiss ‘white’. This surname is also found in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia, often as a German translation of a corresponding Slavic surnames, e.g. Slovenian Belec and Bele (see Belle ). It is also found in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), Denmark, and the Netherlands.
German: variant of Weis .
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