When Anna Elisabetha Schimpf was born on 25 June 1731, in Winterkasten, Bensheim, Hesse, Germany, her father, Philipp Jacob Schimpf, was 50 and her mother, Anna Margaretha Lautenschläger, was 42. She married Johann Philipp Rettich on 12 January 1751, in Neunkirchen, Dieburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 30 July 1798, in Laudenau, Bensheim, Hesse, Germany, at the age of 67, and was buried in Neunkirchen, Dieburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse.
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German: nickname for a humorous or playful person, from Middle High German schimpf ‘sport, play, amusement’, later ‘mockery, disdain’.
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