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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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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