When Philipp Friedrich Held was born about 1808, in Baden, his father, Jakob Arnold Held, was 20 and his mother, Maria Martha Scheibel, was 24. He married Eva Maria Lipponer on 8 May 1833, in Schönau, Amt Heidelberg, Baden. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Schönau, Amt Heidelberg, Baden in 1808. He died on 16 August 1880, at the age of 73.
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German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German, Middle Dutch, Yiddish held ‘hero’. As a Jewish name, it is often artificial.
German and Dutch: from a short form of any of the ancient Germanic personal names formed with hild ‘strife’ as the first element.
English: variant of Heald .
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