Brief Life History of Catharina
When Catharina Scharf was born on 23 December 1843, in Wittenberg, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, her father, Johann Scharf, was 27 and her mother, Katharina Hehr, was 26. She died on 21 May 1846, in her hometown, at the age of 2, and was buried in Wittenberg, Bessarabia, Russian Empire.
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- Katharina Scharf, "Ukraine, Births and Baptisms, 1784-1879"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Erwin, Gerhardt, Kurt, Uwe, Frieda, Fritz, Grete, Helmuth, Horst, Juergen, Klaus.
South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for an energetic, active person, from Middle High German scharf, scharpf and German scharf ‘sharp-cutting’. For Jews, it can also come from the Yiddish adjective sharf, with the same meaning. Compare Sarff , Sharf , and Sharp .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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