When Louis Edward Hosch was born on 3 December 1906, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Louis Carl Hosch, was 30 and his mother, Adah Hall, was 19. He died on 27 March 1985, in Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 78.
North German (Hösch): nickname from a shortened form of west German hovesch, hösch ‘courtly, well educated’ (later ‘quiet, cautious’), a derivative of hof ‘court’ (see Hoff ).
South German: probably a nickname for a scornful person, from Middle High German hoschen ‘to mock’.
East German (of Slavic origin): variant of Hasch .
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