Zacharias Pfahler (abt. 1546 - abt. 1574)

Born about 1546 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died about 1574 at about age 28 in Leiden, Netherlands

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Biography

A soldier who'd long been in the Netherlands, he died in Leiden.

(The genealogist's published work doesn't provide any further details on him. It would seem very likely that Zacharias fought on the side of the Dutch rebellion during the early years of the Eighty Years' War, and fell in the fighting (or died of starvation) in 1573 or 1574 during the Siege of Leiden, and I've so marked that as his possible date of death.

(The published work does not record Zacharias' date of birth, nor of four of his six siblings. His birthdate here is my rough guess, and follows the genealogist's (tentative) sequence of children born to Georg Pfahler and Ottilie Stumpfel. Zacharias may have been born a few years earlier, or a little later.)

"† Leiden/Niederl., als Soldat lange in den Neiderlanden."

Sources

• von Schroeder, Felix: Die Familie Schröder - v. Schroeder aus Königsberg i. Pr., Band 2: Die Geschwister Felix, Heinrich, Irene v. Schroeder: Ahnenlisten, Stammlisten, Nachfahrenlisten (Krailing, Bavaria, Germany, 1989), p. 312
• Translation and notes by Michael Meurer
• Wikipedia article, Siege of Leiden