Mendelssohn family

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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Mendelssohns-philosophy-Mendelssohns-grandchildren-501263|title=Mendelssohn's philosophy, Mendelssohn's grandchildren|access-date=7 July 2024|author=Eli Kavon|date=31 July 2017|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}} 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|date=November 2016}}

Mendelssohn's wife, Fromet (Frumet) Guggenheim, was a great-granddaughter of Samuel Oppenheimer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.loebtree.com/oppsam.html |title=Samuel Oppenheimer |work=LOEB family tree |access-date=2 January 2011 }}

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.{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1464389/Great-nephew-of-original-owner-of-104m-Picasso-challenges-1949-sale.html |title=Great-nephew of original owner of $104m Picasso challenges 1949 sale |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=12 June 2004 |access-date=14 May 2009 }}

Descendants of Moses Mendelssohn

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• 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)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Philipp Veit (1793–1877)
• Recha Mendelssohn (1767–1831)
• Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), banker
• Benjamin (Georg) Mendelssohn (1794–1874), geographer
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Anna Luise Block (1896–1982), publicist; married: (ii) {{ill|Heinrich Hauser (writer)|de|3=Heinrich Hauser (Schriftsteller)|lt=Heinrich Hauser}} (1901–1955), writer; (iii) Alfred Winslow Jones (1900–1989), hedge fund pioneer
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Clara Oppenheim (1861–1944), married Adolf Gusserow (1836–1906), gynecologist
• Franz von Mendelssohn (1829–1889), banker
• Robert von Mendelssohn (1857–1917), banker, married {{ill|Giulietta Gordigiani|it}}, pianist
• Eleonora von Mendelssohn (1900–1951), actress, married Martin Kosleck, actor
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Francesco von Mendelssohn (1901–1972), cellist, theatre director
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Robert-Alexander Bohnke (1927–2005), pianist[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Bohnke-Robert.htm Profile of Robert-Alexander Bohnke], Bach Cantatas website. Retrieved on 14 May 2009.
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Robert von Mendelssohn (1902–1996), banker
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Kurt Hensel (1861–1941), mathematician
• Albert Hensel (1895–1933), law professor
• Ruth Hensel (1888–1979)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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)
• {{ill|Karl Mendelssohn Bartholdy|de}} (1838–1897), historian
• Cécile von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1870–1943), married Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1868–1949), see below (C)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} {{ill|Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy|de}} (1874–1936), law professor, married Dorothea Wach (1875–1949), see below (D){{efn|Albrecht and Dorothea had no children but adopted 2 daughters, Lea born 1916 and Brigitte (1920–2005)}}
• Marie Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1839–1897)
• Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880), chemist
• {{ill|Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy|de}} (1868–1949), banker, married Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1870–1943), see above (C){{efn|Otto and Cécile had two children, Hugo Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1894–1975) and Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy born 1898}}
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1879–1956), chemist
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1843–1850)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Elisabeth Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1845–1910) married Adolf Wach
• Felix Wach (1871–1943)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Joachim Wach (1898–1955)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1812–1874), banker, married Pauline Louise Albertine Heine (1814–1879)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Dorothea Busch (1915–1996), married Hans-Joachim Schoeps (1909–1980), theologian
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Julius H. Schoeps (born 1942), historian
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Alexander von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1889–1917)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 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
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Marie Elisabeth Kummer (1842–1921) married Hermann Schwarz (1843–1921), mathematician
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Wilhelm Mendelssohn (1821–1866) married Louise Aimee Cauer (sister to Bertha Cauer)
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933) composer, married Maria Cauer

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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

Children of Moses and Fromet Mendelssohn:

Image:Dorothea Schlegel.jpg|Dorothea von Schlegel née Mendelssohn c. 1790, by Anton Graff

Image:Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Zeichnung von Wilhelm Hensel 1823.jpg|Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1823, by his son-in-law, Wilhelm Hensel

Children of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy:

Image:Fanny Hensel 1842.jpg|Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, 1842, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Image:Mendelssohn Bartholdy.jpg|Felix Mendelssohn, 1829, by James Warren Childe

Image:Rebecka Mendelssohn - Zeichnung von Wilhelm Hensel 1823.jpg|Rebecka Mendelssohn, 1823, by Wilhelm Hensel

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• [http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=12146 Guide to the Mendelssohn Family Papers] at the Leo Baeck Institute New York.

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