When Louis Edward ADLER was born on 28 January 1936, in Taumarunui, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand, his father, Louis Charles ADLER, was 23 and his mother, Catherine Pearl Gruebner, was 27. He died on 7 July 2003, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, at the age of 67, and was buried in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Erwin, Manfred, Fritz, Gunther, Helmut, Klaus, Merwin, Otto, Bernhard, Egon. Jewish Moshe, Ari, Arie, Aron, Emanuel, Hillel, Aryeh, Avi, Avram, Chaim.
German: from Adler ‘eagle’, in most cases a topographic or habitational name referring to a house identified by the sign of an eagle. The German noun is from Middle High German adelar, itself a compound of adel ‘noble’ + ar ‘eagle’. This surname is also found in e.g. Czechia, Poland, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of the Slavic surname Orel , in Hungary, where it is spelled Ádler, and in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name meaning ‘eagle’.
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