When Ulrich Gerber was born on 16 November 1684, in Röthenbach im Emmental, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Hans Christen Gerber, was 25 and his mother, Anna Lüethi, was 26. He died in 1689, in his hometown, at the age of 5.
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German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tanner, from Middle High German gerwer (from Old High German (ledar) garawo ‘leather preparer’), German Gerber.
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