Brief Life History of Maria Sophia
When Maria Sophia Bach was born on 23 February 1713, in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany, her father, Johann Sebastian Bach, was 27 and her mother, Maria Barbara Bach, was 28. She died on 13 March 1713, in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, at the age of 0, and was buried in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany.
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Family Time Line
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- List of all of Bach's Children
Parents and Siblings
1685–1750 Male
1684–1720 Female
Siblings (7)
1708–1774 Female
1710–1784 Male
1713–1713 Male
1713–1713 Female
1714–1788 Male
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Hans, Kurt, Fritz, Klaus, Horst, Johann, Alfons, Bernhard, Erna, Ernst.
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Middle High German bach ‘stream’. This surname is also found in some other European countries, most notably in Denmark and France (Alsace and Lorraine), but also in e.g. the Netherlands, Czechia (see also 5 below), and Croatia.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Bach ‘stream, creek’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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