Brief Life History of Magdalena
When Magdalena Richter was born about 1646, in Dessau, Osterburg, Province of Saxony, Prussia, Germany, her father, Hans Richter, was 57 and her mother, Maria, was 54. She married Martin Rothe on 16 January 1672, in Dessau, Osterburg, Province of Saxony, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 22 November 1718, in her hometown, at the age of 73.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Fritz, Helmut, Horst, Erwin, Heinz, Juergen, Gerhard, Siegfried, Wolfgang.
German: occupational or status name for an arbiter or judge, Middle High German rihtære (from rihten ‘to make right’). The term was used in the Middle Ages mostly to denote a part-time legal official. Such communal conciliators held a position of considerable esteem in rural communities; in eastern Germany the term came to denote a village headman, which was often a hereditary office. It is in this part of Germany that the surname is most frequent. The surname Richter is also common in many other European countries, most notably Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and the Netherlands, and also in South Africa. See also 3 below.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a rabbinic judge, from German Richter ‘judge’ (see 1 above). See also Dayan .
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