When Samuel Nittel was born on 18 December 1820, in Wittenberg, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, his father, Sebastian Nittel, was 50 and his mother, Margaretha Rau, was 40. He died on 7 February 1906, at the age of 85.
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Polish uprising crushed by forces of Nicholas I.
First Russian railroad, from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo, opens. Aleksandr Pushkin, foremost Russian writer, dies in duel.
Russia fights Britain, France, Sardinia, and Ottoman Empire in Crimean War. Russia forced to accept peace settlement dictated by its opponents.
Some characteristic forenames: German Friedrich, Hans, Helmuth, Jurgen, Klaus, Otto.
South German: probably a nickname from Middle High German tütelen ‘to flatter’, or possibly from Middle High German tütel ‘nipple, tit’.
North German: from a variant of Dietel, a pet form of a personal name formed with the ancient Germanic element theud ‘people, tribe’ (see Dietrich ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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