When Wilhelm Schmidt was born in 1814, in Galicia, Austria, his father, Johann Georg Schmidt, was 29 and his mother, Luise Schmell, was 21. He married Regina Philippina Gött on 3 November 1840, in Reichenbach, Bezirk Lemberg, Galicia, Austria. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 18 November 1851, in Reichenbach, Bezirk Lemberg, Galicia, Austria, at the age of 37.
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The Napoleonic Wars end.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).
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