When Johan Jacob Kauffelt was born on 23 May 1720, in Contwig, Pirmasens, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Johann Christoph Kauffeldt, was 28 and his mother, Anna Sara Dillmann, was 20. He died on 2 January 1721, in Niederauerbach, Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at the age of 0.
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German: seemingly a topographic name with the familiar suffix -feld ‘open country’, but actually a derivative or nickname from Old High German kouf ‘trade, purchase’ (see Kauff ). Compare Coffelt and also Caufield , Coffield , and Cofield .
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