Mendelssohn family

The Mendelssohn family are the descendants of Mendel of Dessau. The German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and his brother Saul were the first to adopt the surname Mendelssohn. The family includes his grandson, the composer Felix Mendelssohn, and his granddaughter, the composer Fanny Mendelssohn.

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Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn was a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany. Mendelssohn had ten children, of whom six lived to adulthood. Of those six children, only Recha and Joseph retained the Jewish religion.^[1] Abraham Mendelssohn, because of his conversion to Reformed Christianity, adopted the surname Bartholdy at the suggestion of his wife's brother, Jakob Salomon Bartholdy, who had adopted the name from a property owned by the Salomon family.^{[citation needed]}

Mendelssohn's wife, Fromet (Frumet) Guggenheim, was a great-granddaughter of Samuel Oppenheimer.^[2]

Mendelssohn & Co. Bank

In 1795 Moses Mendelssohn's eldest son Joseph established the bank Mendelssohn & Co. in Berlin, and his brother Abraham joined the company in 1804. Many members of the family worked for the bank until it was forced to shut down in 1938. In 2004 relatives of the banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1875–1935), led by his great-nephew Julius H. Schoeps (born 1942), tried to reclaim paintings once owned by him and later sold in the 1940s by his widow, in breach of his will.^[3]

Descendants of Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), philosopher, married Fromet Guggenheim (1737–1812); 6 children
- Brendel Mendelssohn (1763–1839), married (i) Simon Veit, (ii) Friedrich von Schlegel
  - Jonas Veit (1790–1854)
  - Philipp Veit (1793–1877)
- Recha Mendelssohn (1767–1831)
- Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), banker
  - Benjamin (Georg) Mendelssohn (1794–1874), geographer
  - Alexander Mendelssohn (1798–1871), banker, married Marianne Seeligmann (1799–1880)
    - Marie Mendelssohn (1822–1891), married Robert Warschauer (1816–1884), banker
      - Anna Warschauer (1841–1866), married Ludwig Passini (1832–1903), painter
      - Marie Warschauer (1855–1906), married Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1846–1909) see below (A)
    - Margarete Mendelssohn (1823–1890), married Otto Georg Oppenheim (1817–1909), jurist
      - Hugo Oppenheim (1847–1921), banker, married Anna Oppenheim (1849–1931)
        Else Oppenheim (1873–1945), married Josef Block (1863–1943), painter
        Anna Luise Block (1896–1982), publicist; married: (ii) Heinrich Hauser [de] (1901–1955), writer; (iii) Alfred Winslow Jones (1900–1989), hedge fund pioneer
        
        Robert Hugo Oppenheim (1882–1956), banker married (i) Charlotte Simon; (ii) Ehrentraut Margaret Von Ilberg 4 children Hugo Oppenheim, Alexander Oppenheim, Imogene Oppenheim, Roberta Marielouise Oppenheim
      - Franz Oppenheim (1852–1929), chemist
      - Clara Oppenheim (1861–1944), married Adolf Gusserow (1836–1906), gynecologist
    - Franz von Mendelssohn (1829–1889), banker
      - Robert von Mendelssohn (1857–1917), banker, married Giulietta Gordigiani, pianist^[4]
        Eleonora von Mendelssohn (1900–1951), actress, married Martin Kosleck, actor
        
        Francesco von Mendelssohn (1901–1972), cellist, theatre director
      - Franz von Mendelssohn (1865–1935), banker, married Maria Westphal (1867–1957), see below (B)
        Lilli von Mendelssohn (1897–1928), violinist, married Emil Bohnke, violist and composer
        Robert-Alexander Bohnke (1927–2005), pianist^[5]
        
        Robert von Mendelssohn (1902–1996), banker
    - Clara Mendelssohn (1840–1927), married Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890), psychiatrist
      - Alexander Carl Otto Westphal (1863–1941), neurologist
      - Anna Westphal (1864–1943), married Eduard Sonnenburg (1848–1915), doctor
      - Marie Westphal (1867–1957), married Franz von Mendelssohn (1865–1935), see above (B)
- Henriette (Maria) Mendelssohn (1775–1831)
- Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835), banker, married Lea Salomon, granddaughter of Daniel Itzig; 4 children
  - Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847) composer, married Wilhelm Hensel (1794–1861)
    - Sebastian Ludwig Felix Hensel (1830–1898) married Julie von Adelson
      - Fanny Römer, née Hensel (1857–1891)
      - Cécile Hensel (1858–1928) married Friedrich Leo (1851–1914)
        Erika Leo (1887–1949) married Walther Brecht
        
        Ulrich Leo (1890–1964), Literary scientist
        
        Paul Leo (1893–1958), Lutheran pastor and theologian, married 1.: Anna Siegert († 1931), 2.: Eva Dittrich (1901–1998)
        Anna Leo (born 1931), Children's author
        
        Christopher Leo (born 1941), political scientist
        
        Monica Leo (born 1944), puppeteer
      - Paul Hensel (1860–1930), philosopher
      - Kurt Hensel (1861–1941), mathematician
        Albert Hensel (1895–1933), law professor
        
        Ruth Hensel (1888–1979)
        
        Charlotte Hensel (1896–1990), married Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), novelist
  - Felix Mendelssohn (Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy) (1809–1847), composer married Cécile Charlotte Sophie Jeanrenaud (1817–1853)
    - Karl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1838–1897), historian
      - Cécile von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1870–1943), married Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1868–1949), see below (C)
      - Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874–1936), law professor, married Dorothea Wach (1875–1949), see below (D)^[a]
    - Marie Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1839–1897)
    - Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880), chemist
      - Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1868–1949), banker, married Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1870–1943), see above (C)^[b]
      - Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1879–1956), chemist
    - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1843–1850)
    - Elisabeth Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1845–1910) married Adolf Wach
      - Felix Wach (1871–1943)
        Joachim Wach (1898–1955)
      - Dorothea Wach (1875–1949) married Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874–1936), see above (D)
  - Rebecka Mendelssohn (1811–1858) married Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859), mathematician
    - Walter Lejeune Dirichlet (1833-1887) married Anna Sachs (1835-1889)
      - Elisabeth Lejeune-Dirichlet (1860-1920) married Heinrich Nelson (1854-1929), lawyer
        Leonard Nelson (1882-1927), philosopher
  - Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1812–1874), banker, married Pauline Louise Albertine Heine (1814-1879)
    - Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1846–1909), banker, married Marie Warschauer (1855–1906), see above (A)
      - Katharine von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1870–1943)
      - Charlotte von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1871–1961)
      - Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1875–1935), banker
      - Enole Marie von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1879–1947), married Albert Constantin, Graf von Schwerin (1870–1956), diplomat, had issue
      - Marie Busch (1881–1970), married Felix Busch (1871–1938), state official
        Dorothea Busch (1915–1996), married Hans-Joachim Schoeps (1909–1980), theologian
        Julius H. Schoeps (born 1942), historian
      - Alexander von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1889–1917)
- Nathan Mendelssohn (1781–1852) instrument maker, married Henrietta Itzig, cousin of Lea Soloman and granddaughter of Daniel Itzig
  - Arnold Mendelssohn (1817–1854), a political follower of Ferdinand Lassalle
  - Ottilie Mendelssohn (1819–1848) married Ernst Kummer (1810–1893), mathematician
    - Marie Elisabeth Kummer (1842–1921) married Hermann Schwarz (1843–1921), mathematician
  - Wilhelm Mendelssohn (1821–1866) married Louise Aimee Cauer (sister to Bertha Cauer)
    - Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933) composer, married Maria Cauer

Descendants of Saul Mendelssohn include:

Philibert Mendelssohn, as a mathematician appointed as 'Koenigliche Rechnungsrat' in the Prussian State Survey

Kurt Mendelssohn, mathematician, one of Philibert's grandchildren
Heinrich Mendelssohn, biologist, also one of Philibert's grandchildren

Gallery

Children of Moses and Fromet Mendelssohn:

Dorothea von Schlegel née Mendelssohn c. 1790, by Anton Graff
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1823, by his son-in-law, Wilhelm Hensel

Children of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy:

Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, 1842, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Felix Mendelssohn, 1829, by James Warren Childe
Rebecka Mendelssohn, 1823, by Wilhelm Hensel

Notes

^ Albrecht and Dorothea had no children but adopted 2 daughters, Lea b. 1916 and Brigitte (1920–2005)
^ Otto and Cécile had two children, Hugo Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1894–1975) and Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy b. 1898

References

^ "Jpost.com". Retrieved October 30, 2018.
^ "Samuel Oppenheimer". LOEB family tree. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
^ "Great-nephew of original owner of $104m Picasso challenges 1949 sale". Daily Telegraph. 12 June 2004. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
^ Eleonora von Mendelssohn's biography on Imdb website. Retrieved on 21 May 2009.
^ Profile of Robert-Alexander Bohnke, Bach Cantatas website. Retrieved on 14 May 2009.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mendelssohn (family).

Guide to the Mendelssohn Family Papers at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York.

v t e Moses Mendelssohn family
Sons of Mendel Dessau	Moses Mendelssohn (married Fromet Gugenheim) Saul Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn's children	Dorothea Mendelssohn Recha Mendelssohn Joseph Mendelssohn Henriette (Maria) Mendelssohn Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy Nathan Mendelssohn
Abraham Mendelssohn's children	Fanny Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn Rebecka Mendelssohn Paul Mendelssohn
Other descendants of Moses	Paul Hensel Kurt Hensel Sebastian Hensel Arnold Mendelssohn Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy Philipp Veit Alexander Carl Otto Westphal Joachim Wach
Related articles	Mendelssohn & Co. (bank) Itzig family (related by marriage) Kurt Mendelssohn (descendant of Saul Mendelssohn)

Felix Mendelssohn

Vocal

Stage	A Midsummer Night's Dream Antigone Oedipus at Colonus Die beiden Neffen Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde Die Hochzeit des Camacho
Sacred	Oratorio: St. Paul / Paulus Elijah / Elias Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen Wer bis an das Ende beharrt Christus Other: "Psalm 42" Vom Himmel hoch (chorale cantata) Drei Motetten Lobgesang (Symphony No. 2) Verleih uns Frieden "Hear my prayer" Lord, have mercy upon us Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt (Psalm 100) Mitten wir im Leben sind
Other	Die erste Walpurgisnacht "On Wings of Song" Festgesang Festgesang an die Künstler

Orchestral

Symphony	13 String Symphonies No. 1 No. 2 (symphony-cantata Lobgesang) No. 3 (Scottish) No. 4 (Italian) No. 5 (Reformation)
Concerto	Violin and Strings Violin Piano, Violin and Strings Piano: No. 1 – No. 2 Two Pianos: in E major – in A♭ major
Other	Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage The Hebrides Die schöne Melusine "Wedding March"

Chamber

String quartet	String Quartet in E♭ major No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 Four pieces for string quartet
Other	Violin Sonata: No. 1 – No. 2 – No. 3 Viola Sonata Cello Sonata: No. 1 – No. 2 Assai tranquillo for cello and piano Clarinet Sonata Piano Trio: in C minor – No. 1 – No. 2 Piano Quartet: No. 1 – No. 2 – No. 3 String Quintet: No. 1 – No. 2 Piano Sextet String Octet

Solo

Piano: Lieder ohne Worte (Songs Without Words) – Variations sérieuses – Fantasie, Op. 28 – Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35
Organ: Six Organ Sonatas

People

Daniel Itzig (mother's side great-grandfather)
Moses (father's side grandfather)
Abraham (father)
Fanny and Rebecka (sisters)
Paul (son)

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Moses Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn & Co. Bank