When Josef Schlosser was born on 17 March 1836, his father, Maximilian Schlosser, was 45 and his mother, Rosalia Franzwa, was 42. He died on 18 December 1837, in Berauersheim, Bács-Bodrog, Hungary, at the age of 1.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from German Schlosser ‘locksmith’.
German (also Schlösser): topographic or occupational name for someone who worked at a castle, from Schloss with the addition of the agent or habitational suffix -er. This surname is also found in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), Czechia, and some other central European countries.
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