Balthasar Kern

Brief Life History of Balthasar

When Balthasar Kern was born in 1708, in Rumbach, Pirmasens, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Christoffel Kern, was 44 and his mother, Catherine Salome Shied, was 45.

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Family Time Line

Christoffel Kern
1664–1748
Catherine Salome Shied
1663–1708
Catharina Magdalena Keren
1684–
Johannes David Kern
1687–1733
Maria Margaretha Kern
1690–1755
Johann Georg Kern
1696–1763
Anna Barbara Kern
1699–
Kern
1700–
Margaret Kern
1700–
Hans Adam Kern
1705–1770
Balthasar Kern
1708–

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    World Events (2)

    1813 · Germans defeat Napolean in Leipzig

    On Oct 19, 1813, Germany defeats Napolean. The commanding officer for the Allied side was Prince Karl Phillipp Schwarzenberg.

    1814

    The Congress of Vienna established the German Confederation of 39 independent German states.

    Name Meaning

    German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel, seed, pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a physically small person. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly artificial.

    English (southeastern): metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of milk churns, from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’. Compare Church .

    Slovenian: nickname for a stunted person, from an old spelling of krn ‘stunted’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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