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Thanks to our Kopsch family members in Scandinavia particularly
Armin Kopsch ( armin.kopsch@telia.com ) we have quite some
information about our name history and our blazon of arms.
I am proud to present the following information:
Family name history
K
0 P S C H
The German family name Kopsch is classified
as being of personal name origin. When a name is derived from
a personal name it is usually the name of the bearer's father
or mother which is adopted and transformed into a fixed hereditary
family name. This name is then proudly transmitted from generation
to generation, occasionally altered orthographically or abbreviated,
providing a link between the living bearer of the surname
and the original bearer of the eponymous personal name from
which the surname derives its origin. In this instance, the
name indicates that this family is descended from a man by
the first name of Kopsch. This name arose in the Est German
and Silesian territories as an East German/Slavic version
of the personal name Jakob, which itself is of Hebrew origin
and means "holder of the heel". This interpretation
is based on that the biblical Jacob is said to have been born
holding the heel of his twin brother Esau. The popularity
of forms of the name Jacob throughout medieval Europe was
inspired largely by the apostle by this name. Variants of
the surname Kopsch include Kopisch. One of the earliest references
to this name or to a variant is a record of the famous German
author August Kopisch (1799 1853), wo hailed from Breslau.
This name could of coarse have been mentioned at an earlier
date. Other notable bearers of this surname include the German
musician A. Kopsch who is mentioned in documents in the year
1854, as well as Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Kopsch, born 1868,
a renowned German physician and publischer. During the wave
of immigration which took place in the nineteenth century,
this name was introduced into America. As early as in the
year 1869, for instance, we find a record of the emigration
of Albert, Ida, Hulda, Gustav, and William Kopisch to New
York.
Blazon of arms for
THE NOBLE FAMILY KOPSCH FROM SILESIA
Blazon of arms: Azure, a fess argent, charged
with three roses gules.
Crest: A plume of peacock feathers proper, before
it a wreath of roses gules and argent.
Origin: Germany
The Historical Research Center
26 april 1995
03Q1/0 70986
Kopsch adel
KOPSCH 1600-1699
The actual information (2001) we have ower the Kopsch Family
is that theirt origin in Silesia (german: Schlesien, polish:
Slask). This part of Europa was during hundreds of years ravaged
of wars and borderfightings and the political affilately changed
many times.
In my paper the earliest notices about the KOPSCH family
are from the 17th century, but "the clan" must be
more older.
The blazon of arms (Wappen) show a rosary (Rosenkrants) around
the helmet what shows that the family confession from the
origin was Catolic.
Palatinate / Plalz 1648
The earliest bearer of the familyname Kopsch, is Hans
Leonhart Kopsch, who 12 April 1648 in Bad Durkheim, Palatinate
(Pfalz) married Lutheran to Ottilia ….
The name Leonhart (= Coeur de Lion / Löwenhertz) indicates
that he was of nobel family and it is possible that he was
i duty of the Count Palatine Johan Kasimir on the Lutheran
side during the Thirty Year's War.
Bohemia / Böhmen 1663
1. 1 this part of the family Kopsch in the village of
Bärnsdorf we met Zacharias Kopsch (1663 1742) and his
wife Elisabeth ........ (1665 17..) and their children Anton
(1705) and Magdalena (1708).
2. Anton Kopsch (1705 17..) married 1730 in the neigbur village
Lusdorf to Juditha Pohl (1714 17..), her parents: Johann Pohl
and Anna Catharina Ulrich. Children Anna Maria (1731), Maria
Magdalena (1733), Anna Rosina (1735) and Anna Veronika (1740),
they are born in Bärnsdorf.
3. Anna Rosina Kopsch (1735 1797) married 1760 in Lusdorf
to Johann Christop Hausmann (1730 1825), parents: Johann Christop
Hausmann and Margareta Ulrich from Lusdorf. Children: Josef
Johann Anton (1761), Johann Anton (1762), Franzius (1767 1838),
Maria Anna (1774), Anna Maria (1775), Johann Josef Gottfried
(1777 77) and Johann Gottfried (1779), born in Lusdorf.
They ought to be farmers. We can locate Bärnsdorf and
Lusdorf 6 miles NE Frydland (10 Km NO Friedland in Böhmen).
Baden 1689
Eva Kopsch married Catholic 10 Januar,1689 to Michael
Engel in Mosbach, Baden.
VARIANTS OF THE NAME K 0 P S C H
Following variants of the family name are known:
KOPSCH
Original form from the medieval Silesia,
Bayern 1648, Bohemia 1663, Poland ca 1840, Sweden, 1923, Canada
1929
von KOPSCH Germany
KOBSCH Poland 1871
KOPISCH Breslau 1799, Berlin 1828, USA 1869
KOPSCHITZ Silesia, same blazon of arms as Kopsch
KOPSCHEVA Danzig (Polish, miss Kopsch)
KOPSCHOVA Danzig 1854 (Polish, mrs Kopsch)
KOPSCHSKI Silesia, (Polish, mr Kopsch)
KÖPSCH Berlin 1736
Possibly variants:
KAPSCH Austria
von KAUPISCH Germany
KOPS Czech
KOPSC Czech
KOPSCHEN Berlin 1765
KUPSCH Leipzig 1926
KUPISCH Berlin 1903
KÖPKSCH Mecklenburg Schwerin 1757
I placenames is the family name KOPSCH maybe involved:
KOPISCH (Klein ) Siebenburgen, Romania.
KOPITZ near Brux, Czech republik
KOPNITZ 90 Km SSE Frankfurt a d Oder
KOPPIENITZ 25 Km NW Beuten or 18 Km N Gleiwitz
KOPPITZ 60 Km SE Breslau or 33 Km V Oppeln
All this information are taken from Armin Kopsch as at 21
October 2001
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