Beppler, Johann Otto 1502^{[1, 2]}

1590 - 1647  (57 years)

• Name	Beppler, Johann Otto
  Suffix	1502
  Born	1590	Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Misc	1628	Nassau , Germany   [3]
  	Johannes (miller at Kintzenbach) and his brother Johannes Otto (miller at Dorlar) wrote
  Name	Johann Otto Pepler
  Name	Otto Beppler
  _FSFTID	KX5X-W3N
  Died	Mar 1647	Dorlar, Hessen, Germany   [2]
  Person ID	I18211	Peplers and Peplows | 1502 Descendents of Johannes Beppler of Kinzenbach
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Beppler, Adam 1502,   b. 1560, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 1603  (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Catharina
  Family ID	F6237	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Beppler, Ludwig 1502,   b. 1617, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 1723, Rodheim-Bieber, Hessen, Germany  (Age 106 years)   2. Beppler, Johannes 1502,   b. 1620, Dorlar, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 17 Dec 1686, Atzbach, Hessen, Germany  (Age 66 years)   3. Beppler, Johann Wolf 1502,   b. 1622, Dorlar, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 1688, Dorlar, Hessen, Germany  (Age 66 years)   4. Beppler, Wilhelm 1502,   b. 1633, Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany ,   d. 14 Jun 1701  (Age 68 years)
  Last Modified	6 May 2023
  Family ID	F2514	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1590 - Kinzenbach, Hessen, Germany Misc - Johannes (miller at Kintzenbach) and his brother Johannes Otto (miller at Dorlar) wrote - 1628 - Nassau , Germany Died - Mar 1647 - Dorlar, Hessen, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S25] International Genealogical Index (R). [S487] German trees fom Jane Peppler, Kinzenbach tree. [S272] Website, http://www.squidoo.com/peppler-family[6/26/2012 7:37:49 AM]. The 1628 letter from "The Undersigned Millers" to the Count of Nassau This was sent to me by Emmi Odenwald. The translation is directly below. The millers' letter of 1628, translated. Ruth von Bernuth, Assistant professor of Early modern German Literature and Culture at UNC-Chapel Hill, is in my Yiddish class and was kind enough to translate this letter for me over the phone! Before we get to the letter, here are some of her observations; 1. The millers probably went to their pastor and asked him to write this letter for them. It is in the Baroque German style - that's like early high german, but the convoluted rhetoric, the use of three synonyms and/or repeating each thought three times is characteristic of the Baroque style whichbecame very popular in the early 17th century. 2. Millers were considered outsiders - not really a part of farm society. "You can't control a miller. You had two sacks of corn when you went to the mill, they give you back two sacks of flour, but who can really tell how much they took for themselves? Millers were regarded as untruthful people. So, because they already have such a bad community image, they would not be complaining unless they had a really good reason..." 3. This letter was written in the middle of the 30-Year War, which devastated the German countryside. There were villages existing before that war that are completely gone, they were wiped out and couldn't start again. The countryside was full of soldiers: French, Swedish, the different German factions - it was the battleground for all kins of troops. The French people didn't suffer as much because all the troops went into Germany. The Swedish stayed for a century. Millers were particularly vulnerable because the mills were located outside the village, where they couldn't be protected, and the millers couldn't protect themselves - they had no right to carry a sword because they weren't nobles. 4. The Count to whom they were writing probably couldn't help them.