When Elsbeth Zimmermann was born on 19 February 1708, in Thierachern, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Hans Zimmermann, was 47 and her mother, Anna Baehler, was 45.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Erwin, Hans, Fritz, Gerhard, Hermann, Klaus, Gerd, Manfred, Wolfgang, Bernhard.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a carpenter, Middle High German zimberman (a compound of zimber, zim(m)er ‘timber, wood’ + man ‘man’), German Zimmermann.
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