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- | It was a common first name at the time (after John the Baptist). In fact, it was so common, males usually went by their second name instead. The exception is people called Johannes, they generally had no second name. The J is pronounced as a Y (think of Johann Sebastian Bach, who, incidentally, grew up about 30 miles away in Eisenach). | + | It was a common first name at the time (after John the Baptist). In fact, it was so common, males usually went by their second name instead. The exception is people called Johannes, they generally had no second name. The J is pronounced as a Y (think of Johann Sebastian Bach, who, incidentally, grew up about 25 miles away in Eisenach). |