Brief Life History of Dorothea Maria
When Dorothea Maria Wedderkopp was born in 1742, her father, Hans Joachim Wedderkop, was 18 and her mother, Anna Elsabe Ruder, was 15. She married Daniel Jansen on 15 October 1773, in Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 11 March 1838, in Kuhof, Oldenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, at the age of 96.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Dorothea Maria Wedderkopp - Published information: birth: 10 February 1752;
- Dorothea Maria Wedderkoppen, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
- Maria Dorothea in entry for Wulf Kahrdel Junssen, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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1813 · Germans defeat Napolean in Leipzig
On Oct 19, 1813, Germany defeats Napolean. The commanding officer for the Allied side was Prince Karl Phillipp Schwarzenberg.
1814
The Congress of Vienna established the German Confederation of 39 independent German states.
Name Meaning
form of a post-classical Greek name, from dōron ‘gift’ + theos ‘god’ (the same elements as in Theodora , but in reverse order). The masculine form Dorotheus was borne by several early Christian saints, the feminine by only two minor ones, but only the girl's name has survived. In modern use in the English-speaking world it represents either a 19th-century Latinization of Dorothy or a learned reborrowing.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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