Johannes Gilgen was born on 19 June 1772, in Rüeggisberg, Bern, Switzerland as the son of Hieromismus Gilgen and Elsbeth Rieder. He died on 23 January 1775, at the age of 2.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Heinz.
German and Swiss German: habitational name from the inflected form of a house name meaning ‘at the lily’, based on Middle High German lilge, gilge ‘lily’, or from a place called Sankt Ägidi, near Passau, for instance (compare Gilger ).
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