When Heinrich Ludwig Dreyer was born on 13 November 1802, in Altleiningen, Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Philipp Konrad Dreyer, was 37 and his mother, Anna Maria Schmitt, was 33. He married Julianna Magdalena Krauss on 26 December 1826, in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 1 January 1855, in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 52.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname derived from German drei ‘three’, Middle High German drī(e), with the addition of the suffix -er. This was the name of a medieval coin worth three hellers (see Heller ), and it is possible that the German surname may have been derived from this word. More probably, the nickname is derived from some other connection with the number three, too anecdotal to be even guessed at now.
North German and Scandinavian: occupational name for a turner of wood or bone, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German dreien, dregen ‘to turn’. See also Dressler .
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