When Johann Jacob Speidel was born on 3 December 1788, in Ofterdingen, Rottenburg, Württemberg, Germany, his father, Sebastian Speidel, was 47 and his mother, Anna Hartmeier, was 39. He died on 11 December 1788, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
German: from Middle High German spidel ‘wooden wedge, peg’, probably used in a figurative sense as a nickname for an uncouth or rough and ready person.
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