When Christiane Luisa Wezel was born on 23 March 1844, in Sersheim, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, her father, Johann Gottlieb Wezel, was 41 and her mother, Christina Magdalena Pflueger, was 41. She married Johann Friedrich Schnizer on 23 May 1872, in Horrheim, Vaihingen, Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Fritz, Hans, Erna, Franz, Friedrich, Harro, Helmut, Benno, Bernhard, Dieter.
German and Danish: from the German personal name Wenzel, a pet form (with the diminutive suffix -l) of the Middle High German Wenze, a borrowing from Slavic, a short form of the personal name found in Old Czech as Vęceslav (see Vaclav ). The borrowing into German took place before Czech lost its nasal vowels. The surname of German origin is also found in some central European countries, e.g. in Czechia, where it is more commonly spelled in Slavicized forms Vencl and Vencel 1. Compare Vencill , Vensel , and Wentzel 1.
Germanized form of Slovenian Vencelj (see Vencel 2), a cognate of 1 above. Compare Wentzel 2.
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