When Johanna Dorothea Stoerl or Sterl was born on 13 March 1785, in Seifersdorf, Reichenbach bei Siebenlehn, Kreis Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, her father, Johann Gottfried Stoerl or Sterl, was 30 and her mother, Johanna Sophia Fritzsche, was 32. She married Karl Gottlieb Fritzsche on 16 November 1809. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 4 November 1865, in Großschirma, Kreis Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, at the age of 80.
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On Oct 19, 1813, Germany defeats Napolean. The commanding officer for the Allied side was Prince Karl Phillipp Schwarzenberg.
The Congress of Vienna established the German Confederation of 39 independent German states.
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
South German (Spörl):
nickname from a diminutive of Middle High German spar(e) ‘sparrow’.
nickname for a poor, lowly person, from Middle High German spör ‘poor, meager, destitute’.
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