When Johannes Grob was born on 26 June 1829, in Ebnat, Ebnat-Kappel, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, his father, Thomas Grob, was 40 and his mother, Regula Bommeli, was 42. He married Anna Katharina Riemensberger on 19 October 1858, in Ebnat, Ebnat-Kappel, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 23 February 1904, in Ebnat, Ebnat-Kappel, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, at the age of 74.
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New Federal Constitution combining elements of the U.S. constitution (Federal State with central and cantonal (state) governments and parliaments) and of French revolutionary tradition. The Principles of this constitution are still valid today.
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German (Switzerland): nickname for a strong, heavy man, or for a lout, from Middle High German g(e)rop ‘coarse’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Yiddish grob, cognate with 1 above, which also means ‘fat’ and may have been applied in this sense.
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