Brief Life History of Dorothea
When Dorothea Kalbrunner was born on 13 April 1725, in Erlenbach, Zürich, Switzerland, her father, Hans Heinrich Kaltbrunner, was 24 and her mother, Anna Fenner Von Nussacht, was 25. She married Hans Jacob Leemann on 5 June 1758, in Switzerland. She died on 18 June 1803, in her hometown, at the age of 78, and was buried in Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Dorothea Kaltbrunner, "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Dorothea Kaltbrünner, "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Dorothea Kaltbrunner in entry for Jacob Lochmann, "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996"
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World Events (2)
1798
Revolution in Switzerland. Farmers in occupied territories become free citizens. Centralistic parliamentary republic according to French model. Occupation by French troops and some battles of Napoleon vs. Austria and Russia in Switzerland.
1800
Switzerland is one of the first industrialized countries in Europe.
Name Meaning
form of a post-classical Greek name, from dōron ‘gift’ + theos ‘god’ (the same elements as in Theodora , but in reverse order). The masculine form Dorotheus was borne by several early Christian saints, the feminine by only two minor ones, but only the girl's name has survived. In modern use in the English-speaking world it represents either a 19th-century Latinization of Dorothy or a learned reborrowing.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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