Brief Life History of Wilhelmine
When Wilhelmine Meyer was born on 31 March 1821, in Planitz, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany, her father, Johann Samuel Meyer, was 42 and her mother, Hanna Sophia Riedel, was 48. She died on 27 July 1893, at the age of 72.
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1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
1864
War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.
1890
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Name Meaning
German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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