thanks Al
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ZIEGLER-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 21
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#1 Re: [ZIEGLER] SIEGLER vs ZIEGLER [alzieg(a)att.net]
#2 Henry W. Ziegler Delaware Native A [rprevost5(a)aol.com]
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From: alzieg(a)att.net
Date: Friday, April 9, 2004 5:21 PM
To: ZIEGLER-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [ZIEGLER] SIEGLER vs ZIEGLER
After 25 years of research on the Ziegler family genealogy I would like to
present my opinion on the origin of the Ziegler name. The following is from a
document from the Historical Research Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Allen
THE ORIGIN OF THE ZIEGLER NAME
The distinguished name of Ziegler and its variants, according to a well known
authority on Teutonic surnames, belongs to that group of names which owe their
origin to a trade or occupation from the German Ziegler,
Ziegel, (from Latin tegula) a brick, tile, and plus the suffix er
brickmaker, tiler, roofer.
Early bearers of the name: Jakob Ziegler (Latin Zieglerus), German theologian,
mathematician, and author born in Bavaria in 1480 visited Italy and witnessed
the sack of Rome in 1526; Bernard Ziegler, German Protestant theologian, born
in Misnia, Germany in 1496; was professor of Hebrew at Leipsic; he was
acquainted with Martin Luther who esteemed him highly; (Luthers mothers
maiden name was Margaret Ziegler) Hieronymous Ziegler, German poet and
biographer, born in Rotenburg in 1520; Casper Ziegler German jurist and
Protestant canonist, born in Leipsic in 1621; was professor of law at
Wittenberg, he published several books; Heinrich Anselm Von Ziegler a German
writer was born in Upper Lusatia in 1653; Franz Von Ziegler, Swiss medical
writer born in Schaffhausen before 1700, was professor of medicine at Rinteln;
Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler German actor and dramatist, born in Brunswick in
1760, Was patronized by Emperor Joseph II and performed at court for nearly
forty years;
Werner Karl Ziegler, German writer on theology, born near Luneburg in 1763,
was professor of theology at Rostock; Claud Louis Ziegler, French painter of
history and portraits, born in Langres in 1804, was a pupil of Ingres,
employed by Louis Philippe to decorate the cupola of the Church of Madeleine,
among his works, The Death of Foscari .
The difference in the spelling of the name should be ignored for two good
reasons; In the first place, in the olden days spelling was precarious. Often
men spelled their own names with different spellings on different occasions or
a clerk spelled the name as he heard it pronounced rather than bother to ask
how to spell it. When the Palatines came to America early in the 18th Century
the English clerks who could not speak German and spelled the names
phonetically in many instances thus we have: Ziegler, Zeisler, Zegler,
Zegeler, Zigler, Ziegeler, and Zeigler. The other reason is that here in
America the census records were printed about 150 years after they were
written. The paper and ink faded, fine strokes of the pen had worn away as the
pages rubbed against each other in use, and the clerks, experts as they were
in reading old documents, sometimes erred in interpreting the handwriting