When Egon Erwin Kisch was born on 29 April 1885, in Prague, Bohemia, Austria, his father, Hermann Kisch, was 47 and his mother, Ernestine Kuh, was 23. He married Gisela Lyner in 1938. He died on 31 March 1948, in his hometown, at the age of 62.
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Italy, Austria, and Germany renew the Triple Alliance. The alliance lasts for three more years.
Start of World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, is assassinated. Austria joins Germany in fighting the Allies.
The Hapsburg Empire is overthrown. Austria became a republic.
Some characteristic forenames: German Horst, Wolfgang.
Jewish (from Bohemia): habitational name from a place called Chýše (German Chiesch).
Germanized form of Hungarian Kiss , meaning ‘small’, and of its Slavicized (mainly Serbian and Croatian) form Kiš (see Kis ). Compare Kish .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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