When Jakob Friedrich Renk was born on 3 December 1838, in Binzen, Amt Lörrach, Baden, his father, Jakob Friedrich Renk, was 25 and his mother, Carolina Bammerlin, was 22. He died on 6 November 1857, at the age of 18, and was buried in Rümmingen, Kreis Lörrach, Baden, Germany.
North German: from a pet form of the personal name Reinhard, composed of the ancient Germanic elements ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’.
South German: habitational name from Rengg in the districts of Zurich and Lucerne.
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