When Anna Barbara Jäger was christened on 3 November 1760, in Scherzingen, Thurgau, Switzerland, her father, Hanß Jacob Jäger, was 27 and her mother, Dorothea Hafen, was 24. She died on 29 December 1830, in her hometown, at the age of 70, and was buried in Scherzingen, Thurgau, Switzerland.
Some characteristic forenames: German Bernhard, Dieter, Gunter, Hans, Irmgard, Kurt, Wilhelm, Wolfgang.
German (also Jäger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic; Jäger); Dutch: occupational name for a hunter, from Middle High German jeger(e), Middle Low German jeger(e), Middle Dutch jagher ‘hunter’. See also Jaeger , compare Yager and Yauger .
Slovenian; Slovak (mainly Jáger, also Jäger): occupational name for a hunter, from jager (Slovak jáger), a colloquial loanword from Middle High German (see Jaeger ). This surname is also found in Czechia (also Jáger) and Croatia. Compare Yager .
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