Brief Life History of Johann Georg
When Johann Georg Seitz was born on 8 October 1833, in Württemberg, Germany, his father, Jakob Seitz, was 30 and his mother, Barbara Rauschenberger, was 23. He married Justina Haag on 28 April 1855, in Fere-Champenoise i Bessarabia, Ukraine. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Russian Empire in 1833. He died on 25 May 1912, in Akkerman, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, at the age of 78.
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- Johann Georg Seitz, "Russia Births and Baptisms, 1755-1917"
- Johann Georg Seitz, "Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885"
- Johann George Seitz, "Ukraine, Births and Baptisms, 1784-1879"
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1837
First Russian railroad, from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo, opens. Aleksandr Pushkin, foremost Russian writer, dies in duel.
1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
1858
Treaty of Aigun signed with China. Northern bank of Amur River ceded to Russia.
Name Meaning
South German (mainly Bavaria): from a shortened pet form of the personal name Seifried, a variant of Siegfried . Compare Sites .
German: possibly a variant of Seiss 1.
In some cases also a Germanized form of Slovenian Zajec or its variant Zajc, meaning ‘hare’ (informally also ‘rabbit’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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