When Bernard Nicolaus Benedict Rautert was born on 5 July 1853, in Hamburg, Germany, his father, Alexander Aloysius Rautert, was 28 and his mother, Johanna Maria Henriette Grubel, was 25. He married Hubertina Anna Margaretha Wolf about 1880, in Neuss, Rhineland, Prussia. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 19 December 1922, in his hometown, at the age of 69.
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From an Old French name of Germanic (Frankish) origin, derived from ber(n) ‘bear’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’. This was the name of three famous medieval churchmen: St Bernard of Menthon ( 923–1008 ), founder of a hospice on each of the Alpine passes named after him; the monastic reformer St Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090–1153 ); and the scholastic philosopher Bernard of Chartres. It was adopted by the Normans and introduced by them to England. A native Old English form, Beornheard, was superseded by the Norman form.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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