When Hans Jacob Klotz was born on 20 July 1602, in Ispringen, Oberamt Pforzheim, Baden, his father, Hannß Jacob Klotz, was 16 and his mother, Katharina Holaus, was 13. He married Anna Catharina Jehlin in 1640. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 26 April 1666, in his hometown, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ispringen, Oberamt Pforzheim, Baden.
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German: nickname for a clumsy, awkward man, from Middle High German klotz ‘lump, block’. Compare Klutts and Kluttz .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above, from German Klotz ‘lump, block’, or Yiddish klots.
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