When Jakob Mayer was born on 31 July 1882, in Galicia, Austria, his father, Johann Georg Mayer, was 41 and his mother, Luise Josepha Heiler, was 37. He married Friederike Vonau on 2 July 1905, in Galicia, Austria. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 17 February 1960, in Uslar, Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany, at the age of 77.
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Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Italy, Austria, and Germany renew the Triple Alliance. The alliance lasts for three more years.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina provoking World War I.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Franz, Helmut, Wilhelm, Erwin, Gerhard, Heinz, Ilse, Lorenz, Wolfgang.
English (Staffordshire): post-medieval form of Mear, which is either a topographic name, from Middle English mere ‘pond, pool’ (Old English mere) or Middle English mere ‘boundary’ (Old English (ge)mǣre), or a habitational name from one or more of the many places with names derived from these terms, such as Mere (Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire), Meir in Caverswall (Staffordshire), and Meare (Somerset).
English: occupational name for a physician, from Old French mire, Middle English mire, meir, meyre, originally synonymous with Myer .
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