When Niklaus Gerber was born on 23 November 1732, in Rothenbach, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Niclaus Gerber, was 33 and his mother, Catharina Aebersold, was 42. He died before 1734, in Roethenbach, Bern, Switzerland.
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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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