When Carl Alwin Seidel was born on 24 December 1862, in Wiesa, Kreis Annaberg, Saxony, Germany, his father, Karl August Seidel, was 46 and his mother, Johanne Christiane Seidel, was 34. He died on 10 July 1881, at the age of 18.
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War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Gerhard, Dieter, Erwin, Otto, Gunther, Fritz, Hans, Horst, Klaus, Arno, Dietrich.
South German: from the medieval name Sidel, a pet form of Sīfrit (see Siegfried ).
South German: metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden drinking vessels, see Seidler .
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