Mercédès Jellinek
{{Short description|Namesake of Mercedes-Benz}}
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{{Distinguish|Mercedes Jelinek}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mercédès Jellinek
| image = Mercedes jellinek adult.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Adriana Manuela Ramona Jellinek
| birth_date = {{birth date|1889|09|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = {{death date and age|1929|02|23|1889|09|16|df=y}}
| death_place = Vienna, Republic of Austria
| other_names = {{hlist|Mercédès|"Mercédès" Jellinek}}
| occupation = Soprano
| known_for = Eponym of the Mercedes marque
| father = Emil Jellinek
}}
Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Manuela Jellinek (16 September 1889 – 23 February 1929){{Cite news |title=1889: A Luxury Car's Namesake Is Born |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2013-09-16/ty-article/.premium/1889-luxury-cars-namesake-is-born/0000017f-efcc-d8a1-a5ff-ffce696c0000 |access-date=2023-01-21|df=dmy-all}} was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his first wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. She was born in Vienna.{{cite journal | title = Parting Shot | journal = The Automobile | volume = 30| issue = 7 | page = 98 | date = September 2012 }} She is best known for her father having Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft's line of Mercedes cars named after her, beginning with the Mercedes 35 hp model of 1901.{{cite web|url=https://www.daimler.com/magazine/culture/100-things-mercedes-jellinek.html |title=Mercédès Adrienne Manuela Ramona Jellinek | Daimler > Company > Tradition > Leaders & Personalities > Sales Partners |access-date=2015-05-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518062757/http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-1541393-1-1279452-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-7145-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html |archive-date=2015-05-18 |df=dmy-all}}
In addition, her father hung a large picture of her at the 1902 Paris Automobile exhibition. He even legally changed his name to Jellinek-Mercedes in 1903 after Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft registered Mercedes as a trademark in 1902.{{Cite news|url=http://www.indiabusinessjournalonline.com/|title=Know the Brand|last=Koradia|first=Jay|date=1 March 2012|work=India Business Journal}} Mercedes is a Spanish female name meaning mercies (Spanish: merced f sg, "mercy", mercedes f pl, "mercies").{{Cite book|title=Mercedes-Benz|author=Adler, Dennis|date=2008|publisher=Motorbooks|isbn=9780760333723|location=Minneapolis|page=33|oclc=209630111}}
Biography
Jellinek lived in Vienna, and married twice.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/automobiles/her-name-still-rings-a-bell.html|title=Her Name Still Rings A Bell|last=Krebs|first=Michelle|date=2001-10-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-04|df=dmy-all|issn=0362-4331}} She had an elaborate wedding in 1909 in Nice, on the French Riviera, with Baron von Schlosser. The couple lived in Vienna until World War I, which ruined them.{{how|date=March 2021}} They had two children; Elfriede (b. 1912) and Hans-Peter (b. 1916). In 1918, she was begging for food in the streets. A little later, leaving her husband and two children, she married Baron Rudolf von Weigl, a talented, but poor, sculptor. She played music and had a good soprano voice. She never shared her father's passion for automobiles and never owned an automobile.{{cite web | url=https://mercedes-benz-publicarchive.com/marsClassic/en/instance/ko/Mercedes-Jellinek.xhtml?oid=581 | title=Mercedes Jellinek }}
Jellinek died in Vienna, from bone cancer, in 1929, at the age of 39, and was buried in Vienna in the family grave near her grandfather, the former chief rabbi of Vienna, Adolf Jellinek.Claude Wainstain, "une Mercedes en or", La Terre Retrouvée, Paris, May 1984 In 1926, Daimler merged with Benz & Cie; although the company traded as Daimler-Benz, it gave the name "Mercedes-Benz" to its cars to preserve the respected Mercedes brand.
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Category:Austrian people of Czech-Jewish descent