When Johan Ulrich Brassel was born on 1 April 1864, in Sankt Margarethen, Münchwilen, Thurgau, Switzerland, his father, Hans Ulrich Brassel, was 22 and his mother, Katharina Ittensohn, was 24. He died on 2 March 1865, at the age of 0.
German: nickname for a glutton, from Middle High German brasseln, prasseln ‘to indulge or feast’.
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