Brief Life History of Johann Adam
When Johann Adam Hoffmann was born on 4 January 1738, in Nünschweiler, Pirmasens, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Johann 'Hans' Nikolaus Hoffmann, was 50 and his mother, Anna Barbara Hofer, was 48. He married Luisa Weidmann on 6 January 1760, in Nünschweiler, Pirmasens, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died about 8 February 1810, in his hometown, at the age of 72.
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- Johann Adam Hoffmann, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- Hong Adam Hoffmann, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
- Joh. Ad. Hofmanns, „Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971“
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Gerhard, Hans, Heinz, Otto, Dieter, Klaus, Wolfgang, Armin, Manfred, Ernst, Erwin.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a steward on a farm or estate, from German Hof(f) ‘farm, manor farm, courtyard’ + Mann ‘man’. Originally, this was a status name for a farmer who owned his own land as opposed to holding it by rent or feudal obligation, but the name soon came to denote the manager or steward of a manor farm, in which sense it is frequent also among Jews, since many Jews held managerial positions on non-Jewish estates. This form of the surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Czechia, and the Netherlands. Compare Hofman , Hofmann , Homann , and Huffman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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