When Christine Bauer was born on 12 February 1822, in Wössingen, Bezirksamt Bretten, Baden, Germany, her father, Heinrich Bauer, was 25 and her mother, Christina Kælber, was 24. She died on 8 May 1900, at the age of 78, and was buried in Wössingen, Bezirksamt Bretten, Baden, Germany.
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On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Fritz, Helmut, Heinz, Manfred, Franz, Gerhard, Johannes, Wolfgang.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a peasant or nickname meaning ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, from Middle High German (ge)būr, Middle Low German būr, denoting an occupant of a būr, a small dwelling or building. This word later fell together with Middle High German būwære, an agent noun from Old High German būwan ‘to cultivate’, later also (at first in Low German dialects) ‘to build’. The precise meaning of the Jewish surname, which is of later formation, is unclear. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic status names or surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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