When Eleanor Meister was born on 12 June 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, William Alfred Meister, was 22 and her mother, Margarett Marie Kapper, was 23. She lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1930. She died in October 2010, in Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 84.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Konrad, Otto, Fritz, Hans, Klaus, Alois, Bernhard, Dieter, Ewald, Hellmut, Helmut.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for someone who was master of his craft, from Middle High German meister ‘master’ (from Latin magister). As a Jewish surname it denoted a rabbi as a leading figure in a Jewish community. The German surname in this form is also found in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace), the Netherlands, Czechia, and Poland.
Germanized form of Slovenian Majster or Majšter, and possibly also of Czech Majstr: status name of ultimate German origin (see 1 above).
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